Help me ID rifle please

[compass will]

My brother found this at a job, maybe the owner is interested in selling but I want to know what it is before offering anything.
Brother said its marked 6.5mm, might be dated 1941. The current owner got it from his father, who came over from Italy after WW2 we think.
Might be a starter to get my Brother into casting :).

http://will.rosenberry.us/albums/userpics/10001/ron.jpg

[JeffinNZ]

That, my good man, is a 6.5x52mm Carcano. Short rifle M91. Hornady make a .268 bullet if you want to shoot jacketed. For cast you'll likely need at least .269 inch.

[woodsxdragon]

Same type of rifle that killed Kennedy

[compass will]

Thanks. We might pass on this one.
it has more value to current owner with the prominence that his father owned it.
One note was this was possibly (just like) the gun that led to the 1968 gun control act after Lee Harvey Oswald bought one surplus one in 1963 :(.

[Ben]

Same type of rifle that killed Kennedy

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I'll never be convinced that there was only 1 shooter that day.

Ben

[Zymurgy50]

Fumble fingered secret service guy shot Kennedy with a AR15 from the car behind Kennedy.

[gwpercle]

Don't pass on it ....when I was younger I thought they were junk...but I was wrong. Various tests have shown them to be just as accurate ( JFK shooting) and with as strong an action as any WWII rifle issued. I would get it. If not too pricey of course. They used be very modest in price .

[leadhead]

It's a model 38 short rifle, not M91.
Denny

[JeffinNZ]

It's a model 38 short rifle, not M91.
Denny

Isn't the M38 the 7.35mm version?

[JWFilips]

Fumble fingered secret service guy shot Kennedy with a AR15 from the car behind Kennedy.
Not too many knew about that .223 round back then & what it could do. And I bet is wasn't a fmj! Secret service want the bad guy stopped! unfortunately the gun fired too soon! (I have lifted a few ground hog skulls over the years with that round )

[enfield]

If we'd have never gone to that darn smokeless powder we all would have seen where the shot came from.

[Bloodman14]

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I'll never be convinced that there was only 1 shooter that day.

Ben

You and me, both, buddy.

[JWFilips]

If we'd have never gone to that darn smokeless powder we all would have seen where the shot came from.
From eye witness reports the people in the car behind the SS car smelled the gunsmoke...but it didn't smell like brimstone!:mrgreen:
Most sorry for the HiJack

[Mik]

Fumble fingered secret service guy shot Kennedy with a AR15 from the car behind Kennedy.

Interesting. I haven't heard this before. Where can I read about it?

[MtGun44]

LOL! Back on all that same old BS again! HA HA HA!

Oswald from the School Book Depository with a 6.5 Carcano, easy 65 yd shot, moving straight away at 5 mph,
rested on the window sill, I have duplicated the shot timing many times, very easy to get those shots off that
fast with that rifle. Huge amounts of TOTALLY unsubstantialted BS out there by many authors making stuff up
to sell books.

Read the actual Warren Commision report and it is super clear. I have a copy and several Carcanos and tested
this back in the 60s many times. No magic in anything, simple shot by a Marine trained shooter who happened
to get lucky on that day.

Bill

[ammohead]

The Warren Commission report has one serious flaw. LHO never got his day in court. And the only statement he was able to make was that he did not do it. Dead men tell no tales, and LHO had to die. We will never know for certain who killed JFK. But it was no accident.

[mpbarry1]

Killed by a dyed in the wool communist. Lee Harvey Oswald.

[Pepe Ray]

Bill, I did'nt realize that you were a south paw. I'm surrounded!!
Pepe Ray

[WRideout]

Back when I was in college (remember the Iran Hostage Crisis?) I borrowed a 6.5 Carcano from an old timber cutter I had met working in the hospital, to use for deer season. I only had a 12 ga Winchester shotgun at the time, which was not ideal for Northern CA conditions. That beat-up old Carcano was amazingly accurate with factory reloads; I could get cloverleaf groups with it at 80-100 yards.

Wayne