Looking for Carcanos

[Ovidio]

You should look for the 91/38 variants or the cavalry moschetto (folded bayonet), especially in 6,5x52. 7,35 was issued only in limited numbers.
The long rifle was also very much in use, but less in front-line units.
If you want to reload, you should look for old military bullets. Here in Italy you still find them, but they're getting rare.
Hornady has a .268 160 grs. bullet perfectly suiting, but first check your bore. Some Carcanos have been tinkered with and have tighter bores (.264).

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[cherokee]

You should look for the 91/38 variants or the cavalry moschetto (folded bayonet), especially in 6,5x52. 7,35 was issued only in limited numbers.
The long rifle was also very much in use, but less in front-line units.
If you want to reload, you should look for old military bullets. Here in Italy you still find them, but they're getting rare.
Hornady has a .268 160 grs. bullet perfectly suiting, but first check your bore. Some Carcanos have been tinkered with and have tighter bores (.264).

Wow...been here a long time and this is my first message.....amazing I kept my mouth shut for so long.

I have two and am in the process of working up loads for them. Partizan makes factory ammo....going to cost you about $2 per bang. But that gives you some good re-loadable brass.....Norma also makes brass for it....but like most of their stuff it is a bit spendy....good but spendy.

The Hornady bullets are fantastic....the correct profile and correct size if the gun is in "good" shape. Mine really came alive with hand loading. I went from a basket ball group at 100 to a fist sized group with a bullet that did not bounce its way down the bore....also had some real key holes with the partizan ammo.

They are real fun guns to shoot (oops all of this is for 6.5) very lite recoil....just a pleasure. The hornady bullets are also a bit spendy....but I got the costs down to about $.70 per shot.

The rifles are one of the few "good deals" left in the surplus world....and are also fun to shoot.....find a good one and give it a try.