6.5 Carcano reloading

[vintage hunter]

I have a lot of Carcanos and most have mint bores ,

The .268 Hornady bullet has some major issues , it was designed by someone who did not understand how the rifle worked , did not know there are

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are three different Carcano bore sizes , did not have enough examples to work with . The bullet was made too large dia , that caused the jacket to tear in some rifles with tight lands , then the jacket was thickened to stop that, which caused it to stick in some rifles , over pressuring some rifles , blowing out cases . It is dangerous in 14 of my rifles , does not work well in about 30 , and is workable in 4

Well bob, all I'm gonna say to that at this point is I reckon it's better to have two with so-so bores that they work in rather than 44 with mostly mint bores that they don't.