Had about 5 of those buggers. Gave them all away. Friends tried to give them to me, wouldn't take them.
The price tag said it all. They sold from 9.99 to 14.95 tops. And Sears did carry them, I have catalog #25 somewhere in the pile that features them.
Junk. Plain and simple.
6.5 round nosed round, even in civilian, was a punk round.
Oswald was NOT the rifleman everyone claims. He barely made sharpshooter the two times he qualified.
He never practiced much with the rifle.
He was there, he had the rifle, he was part of it, he DID NOT do the damage. Another shooter(s) did.
Sigh, this debate will outlive the both of us.
Why would you have FIVE Carcanos if you didn't like em. Didn't you wise up after the first two or three?
I know rifles and the Carcano is a good rifle. You keep going to price but in those days one could also buy a Mauser for umteen dollars. I remember when a Cain Sloan Department store in Nashville had a GERMAN Mauser K-98 in great condition for $32.