Future Darwin Award Nominee

[Aragorn243]

I belong to many facebook milsurps groups and a guy posted about his Italian Vetterli rifle he got for the bargain price of $160.00. He has shot it numerous times, ignores all advice to the contrary and believes the danger lies in A) the barrel sleeve melting out increasing headspace and B) the converted bolt (from rimfire) (also ignores being told it's the Swiss rifles that are rimfires).

So we begin with a rifle never intended for the pressures of 6.5 Carcano, don't understand that it's soft steel in the receiver which stretches and top it off with this being one of the most corroded examples of a barrel I have ever seen. And you guys have seen some of mine.

I did my duty, I tried to warn him.

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