[saganite]

My father inaw has a WWII Italian Carcano 7.35 mm and he asked me to do some research. Turns out it was a replacement for the 6.5 mm which the Italians decided wasn't a very good very good cartridge back then and the Italians tried to switch over to the larger caliber before the war but couldn't. Nice gun though. Someone was using it for shooting sharks off a fishing boat before he picked it up.

[Echo Talon]

My father inaw has a WWII Italian Carcano 7.35 mm and he asked me to do some research. Turns out it was a replacement for the 6.5 mm which the Italians decided wasn't a very good very good cartridge back then and the Italians tried to switch over to the larger caliber before the war but couldn't. Nice gun though. Someone was using it for shooting sharks off a fishing boat before he picked it up.

isn't that they type of gun that killed Kennedy?

[Echo Talon]

here

well obviously the gun didn't kill Kennedy Oswald did.. :\

[x1stcav]

Back before Kennedy was assasinated (no, not Ted), and guns could be sold mail order, the American Rifleman always had a full page ad on the back cover from a company that sold war-surplus rifles and pistols. Their descriptions were, to a 13-year-old, hilarious. The writeup for the 6.5MM Carcano was:

"Excellent condition! Like new! Never fired and only dropped once!"

Those were the days before PC and the feminization of the US.

This used to be a great country.