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Thread: Carcano Mosquito 6.5 Carbine at long range? Will it do it?

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    Carcano Mosquito 6.5 Carbine at long range? Will it do it?

    For my Birthday today, I bought a very nice Carcano Moshetto"Mosquito" in 6.5 with the adjustable rear sight and folding bayonet. The bore is like new, and I loaded up some .267 140 grain FMJ's over BL-C2 powder. MV should be 2,200 FPS and I'm hoping the bullet will still be supersonic at 800 yards My other Carcano model rifles do OK at this distance out of the rifles.
    The only other carbines I have are the fixed sight for 300 meters in 6.5 and 8MM and trying to find the hold over is a waste of ammo.
    I'll post the results next Saturday. It will be fun trying to hit the target either way.

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    is it the older model with the gain twist rifling ?
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    The carbines never had gain twist rifling.

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    i currently have 2 original carbines with the gain twist rifling ! -
    never pick a fight with an old man - if he is too old to fight he will just kill you -
    in this current crisis our government is not the solution , it is the problem ! -

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    Quote Originally Posted by schutzen-jager View Post
    i currently have 2 original carbines with the gain twist rifling ! -
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    My carbine was made in 1942, with the old adjustable rear sight by FNA-B. The Carcano sight says it has "Constant" rifling.

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    some of mine with gain twist

    1916 Brescia, 1918 Brescia both gain twist - 1936 Gardone conventional rifling [ also has adjustable short carbine sight ] - need better camera to get bore picture - also have a 1920 Beretta with gain twist at daughters in SC. -
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    never pick a fight with an old man - if he is too old to fight he will just kill you -
    in this current crisis our government is not the solution , it is the problem ! -

    ILLEGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM

    as they say in latin

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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
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GC Gas Check