Italian Vetterli Model 1870/87 Carbine Caliber 10.4x47mmR

[bob q]

C&R broke two by using the wrong bullets and loads in their handloads . They broke them by not knowing what they were doing , not the rifles fault .

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[KneverKnew]

C&R broke two by using the wrong bullets and loads in their handloads . They broke them by not knowing what they were doing , not the rifles fault .

So do you think standard PPU 139 grain FMJ factory loads are safe to shoot in the 6.5 Vetterli Carcano conversions?

[Aragorn243]

I have zero desire to fire mine. I have no need to fire it. I have 9 other actual Carcano's I could shoot first before this on. I have it for my collection but that's all.

If I had a major boating accident, lost the 9 Carcano's along with every other firearm I own, and society collapsed, and I had only the 6.5 conversion and a box of ammo and I needed to hunt deer with it I would.

It's a risk vs reward type of thing. Take a needless chance to injure a hand or eye or starve to death? Lots of others are perfectly willing to do the first, I'm not.