Carcano!

[BAC]

Meant to ask, does it have the Chrysanthemum, or was it ground off at the surrender ?

No mum.  Monopod missing as well.  It does still have the cool anti-aircraft rear sight.

The one that impressed me most to shoot was the Enfield.  Maybe I like it better than the Garand (gulp).  Can't believe I just wrote that.

[tombogan03884]

LOL

[alfsauve]

Very neat collection.

[Conagher 45]

I have noticed the price of Lee- Enfield has been going up over the past couple of years, now may be the time to get one. It is about the only other WWII rifle that interests me other than the Garand.

[BAC]

I have noticed the price of Lee- Enfield has been going up over the past couple of years, now may be the time to get one. It is about the only other WWII rifle that interests me other than the Garand.

They are all going up in price rather rapidly.  The most expensive was the Garand, which I bought from the Ohio CMP store for around $600, and the cheapest was the Mosin ($75 including tax).

[Sponsor]

[BAC]

Looky at what showed up on my doorstep this afternoon:



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[Big Frank]

That's a nice looking carbine. It looks so short compared to the full size rifles. It would be handy for hunting.

[BAC]

I was surprised by how small it is.  My 10/22s are longer than it is.

[tombogan03884]

Over on Youtube, and Full 30  CandRsenal have excellent video's on WWI era Carcano's and "Arisaka's".
They have your Carcano, but if it had a monopod and AA sights your Japanese rifle is probably a type 99 .
The videos are on the type 30 , 38 , and 38 and 44 carbines.
All of them seem to be vastly under rated, although the 6.5 cartridges were kind of anemic.

[les snyder]

the Arisaka's have the type year (of Meijii's reign) marked on the top of the receiver... 38 should look like three stacked horizontal lines and something like this  ) ( .... Japanese numerals are on the net....it's been 40 years since I was there