Watched this video when it first came out a while back and came upon it. Have a buddy that worked surplus warehouses back in the day for Century Arms. He said whenever they had a rifle come in that was in good mechanical shape but had cosmetic issues like this in that batches brought in, the employees who inspected the rifles would mark a select few as gunsmith specials for employees to buy from the company at a good discount. I suspect that is what happenned here. Some employees saw this rifle wasn't in bad shape, labeled it a Gunsmith special with the intent to buy it later, but didn't know about this sale or forgot about it. Kinda reminds me of how certain cop buddies of mine that have a few choice pieces that were saved from destruction in evidence rooms
I managed to snag one. It was missing the buttplate, has a hole in the stock where your hand would grip it(a little bit of work and this was a non issue for me), and finally it took a little cleaning. I got the level style bayonet. All and all, I am blown away at the quality for the price. It was incredible and I agree about a potential purchase of the year.
During the early 90s, I was buying these three at a time. Some came in in very good condition, and others look like they were used to get stuck vehicles out of the mud.😂 nonetheless most of them were cleaned up and sold to friends. Those are the days when they were delivered for $7.50 and cost under $60 each.
I want to see a 30 minute video dedicated to military surplus ammo, where are you show the different kinds of calibers that are popular, some common brass case, some common military surplus ammo and talk about which you prefer shooting which is your favorite to reload, etc.
I managed to snag two of the M91's. First one had some trigger reset issues, due to the trigger binding in the stock which was remedied by scraping some wood from the inside. The first one was also missing its top handguard. Second one had a superficial split on the right side of the stock at the magazine area, which can definitely be epoxied back together. Other than that, Completely mechanically sound, so I was super stoked for $60 a piece!
I had my grandfather's Carcano. I handed it down to my son. It's a model 38. (7.35X51). It doesn't have the original stock. It has a sporterized stock. Still a good shooter though. I used it in some competitions, and it put plenty of food on the table over the years.
I have it’s brother, same year, manufacturer and serial number block. This block is out of the normal series and it’s been conjectured (by very knowledgeable people, not gun show Fudds) that it was a special run for the Pubblica Sicurrezia.
The very first deer I ever killed was with a Carcano that belonged to my Grandfather. I still have the rifle, he brought it home with him as 'spoils of war' trophy. It has some high mileage on it but still works great. Does not have the bayonet on it and never did to my knowledge because it has no mount for it. I keep it hanging over the mantle with an 1840-pattern heavy saber. Nice to see ppl interested in history
I'd bought a pre-1918 cavalry carbine on sale from rti. Got a kinda beat 1917, but it was mostly stock repairs in the past, one rusty patch about 4" from muzzle inside bore. Smoothest bolt, and it's great for dropping hogs out back. Based on that, I bought a "nice" one, from the "no handguard" sale, and got one same year as you, in same or slightly better condition. I'd say you did great.
Back in the 90s they would give you a carcano if you bought a AK 47 they were that unwanted. You could buy one for 40 dollars in like new condition. The junkie ones were 29.95 .
Reminds me of the gun store outside the main gate of my base...SKS carbines and rifles selling for $25 each because GI's returning from Viet-Nam with war trophies and then selling them to the gun store for cash. Some of those rifles were actually unused, captured from arms cache's in the field. Should of bought one...smh
Congrats seems ya got a complete n decent bore rifle........I've sold all of my Carcanos few years ago because even though I reload getting proper projectiles or even milsurp ammo is very hard to get.... Now with the "African Dump" it will be very hard to buy food for these old war horses...... be well.......
I believe that Carcano 6.5 ammo will be available in quantity in the future as there are so many of these being imported it will be worthwhile for manufacturers to meet this new demand. I now have 3 of these, an original WWI long rifle and 2 carbines.
I bought one of these about 4 years ago. Looked good but had slight damage to the crown. Bad enough to cause keyholing. Sitting in my safe. You hit a good deal.
Put a fresh crown on it and make sure you are using proper diameter bullets. PPU is loaded with .264 bullets and they are too small to be stabilized in many carcanos.
@@PraxesArdenn You are correct. I'm using Hornady .267 160g bullets. Already started fooling with the crown but never got back to it. Thanks for input.
My first hunting rifle when I was a kid was a 7.35 Terni. You used to be able to buy them at second hand stores in the 60s and 70s. They would have barrels filled with them and sold them for 8 or 10 bucks.
When I openned my Gunsmithing shop in the 1990s, I'm mounted an 1891 Carcano rifle over the front door. I took it apart and painted all the metal black and painted the wood brown with oil-based house paint. Then I drilled two holes through the stock and bolted it to the wall outside the shop over the front door in the weather. I was never worried about the weather damaging it or anybody trying to steal it, because it was a carcano and absolutely nobody wanted one! Even the ATF agents didn't care that one of my inventory items was kept outside "unsecured ". I closed the shop and took it down in 2000.
I didn't cash in onto those since I was busy, which I did because a lot of them came to be in shootable condition. I did purchase 2 rifles from RTI right. A B grade 1891 Carcano rifle and the 150$ carcano carbines without the handguards.
Nice! I bought a worse condition one from a LGS last year for double that and I thought it was a great deal. Maybe the 6.5 Carcano ammo stays scarce for a while and keeps the prices low.
Wow, a friend gifted me a WWII era Carcano sporterized carbine in 7.35 x 51 cal; I fired it next to my WWII Mauser, and it is just as accurate as the Mauser, or at least, I shot it as well as the Mauser. Watching this unboxing and several other Carcano unboxings from tiger imports, I realize what GREAT shape mine is in! Better than any of these I've seen. Thanks!
You gotta darken the stain of that replacement handguard! I bought a very nice 1914 cavalry carbine from dk and I most recently got an extremely nice 42 CC from RTI, sale price %135. Very lucky with that one.
Great deal? That's like saying "I found a barn full of 1988 Yugos, I'll sell you one for $50!" In the end - it's STILL a Carcano. Nice wall-hanger, almost relevant in a historic way. But $60 is still too much if you're expecting a usable rifle.
I have a few Mosins. They have great bores and shoot accurately at 100 yards (limit of my eyes). However, no matter what I try, I can not get the bores to shin up like chrome. In fact no matter how clean I try to get them, they stay black. Any help on getting the bores to shiny would be appreciated. Again, they shoot excellently and the refilling looks good and the headspace is right.
You can't get dark bores to shine up because of the use of corrosive ammo . Unless they went to a foreign country, most ww2 and later arms made in the USA never had corrosive ammo fired in them. There is still a lot of corrosive primed ammo in non nato countries. And old surplus ammo as well.
These days I’m kicking myself for selling my .303 Enfield about two years after I bought it. It only cost me $65 waaayyy back when…about 30 years ago. Besides a weak magazine spring which was common on old surplus Enfields, it functioned just fine. IIRC, I could only get 8 rounds to feed reliably from the mag. Not bad, considering it was at least 50 years old when I bought it.
Im heading to the big Tulsa show coming up but Im not even really excited for it because I know everything I see will be insanely priced. I went a few years ago and got good deals on an 1889 Swiss, a Budapest M9M and a Turk short Mauser, but I have a feeling Im not going to see anything reasonably priced this time. Hope I am wrong.
Didn't the Italians basically cut down their long rifle m91's to turn them into carbines? Only problem being the rifling track in the barrel isn't long enough anymore as a carbine to spin the bullet properly
I once bought a couple Mosins cheap like that from a distributer. Both had sewer pipe bores totally rotted but the outsides were fair. Junk rifles are not worth any amount of money unless you are using them as fence posts.
Awesome score man, congrats! I finally took the Cavalry Carbine Carcano plunge last year on a couple from RTI when they had them on sale for $130. Luckily, I ended up getting two that were in very nice condition with all matching sn's.
Got you beat, I acquired from a hoarder house cleanout An M1 carbine rifle with original mags and ammo for $60. the manufacturer of the rifle, General Motors. it can dump a 30 round mag in about 8 seconds in my hand.
I've seen these websites before. I thought they always cut the Barrell and receiver to make it non functional. But your saying I could get a fully functional firearm? I might look at these sites again.
DK is one of my local gun stores . They are good folks and its always a pleasure doing business with them . They even let me bring my Dobermann inside. 😎👍🏻
My thing with the car condos is the fact that I never see them in good condition. Unlike a lot of the military surplus rifles that I can pay less for a beat up one or more for a good one, I’ve never seen a car Cano that was in unused condition the same way you could find with other things. Anyone know why that is? Do they not store these as well as Russia? For example or China?
Do you have to go through a FFL dealer and get put in the system when you buy these ? Then Uncle Sammy and the ATF has your info. ?????? (Name, Address, DOB, serial numbers, and more !!!!
Only thing of great interest is the condition of the barrel inside. Video is worthless without. Carcano was my first rifle back in the 60’s. Pre NFA act, they were sold out of a large barrel in Globe dept store sports dept. I believe for about $8-10-your choice. No paperwork, however I had to bring an adult along as I was 13.
I wouldnt take that carcano or any carcano for free. Id tell them they can throw it in the trash where it belongs.Milsurp stuff is now a joke. Museums dont want your antiquated rusty trash.
Nah....the deal of the decade was a few years back when you could buy crates of straight-from-the-arsenal, still-wrapped-in-cosmoline mosin nagants by the 20 rifle crate for $69 each!
You got a nice one there. You into carcano rifle’s? Maybe you can help me, I got a carcano in 7.92 Mauser that I need a replacement barrel for. Got any clues were I can find one?
The Carcano I bought recently from RTI was incomplete and WAY overrated. Borderline junk. I won't be ordering any more from those guys. This one in your video looks great! Excellent purchase.
I have the same gun. But I need help. The bayonet you used I also have, it's a carcano bayonet. Question... my scabbard is marked A.R.E.T 1933 In the leather just below the brass top on the scabbard. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Non firing!?? Ok, I have one in 6.5. I shot the heck out of it. Shoots fantastic ,with my hand loads. Hand Loads work great. I use the 6.5 160 round nose. It was from Hornady. But it's discontinued from them . They need to bring it back. Glad I purchased when I did.
Watched this video when it first came out a while back and came upon it. Have a buddy that worked surplus warehouses back in the day for Century Arms. He said whenever they had a rifle come in that was in good mechanical shape but had cosmetic issues like this in that batches brought in, the employees who inspected the rifles would mark a select few as gunsmith specials for employees to buy from the company at a good discount. I suspect that is what happenned here. Some employees saw this rifle wasn't in bad shape, labeled it a Gunsmith special with the intent to buy it later, but didn't know about this sale or forgot about it. Kinda reminds me of how certain cop buddies of mine that have a few choice pieces that were saved from destruction in evidence rooms
I managed to snag one. It was missing the buttplate, has a hole in the stock where your hand would grip it(a little bit of work and this was a non issue for me), and finally it took a little cleaning. I got the level style bayonet. All and all, I am blown away at the quality for the price. It was incredible and I agree about a potential purchase of the year.
yo holy shit he's a sailor moon fan? i already was a casual enjoyer of your stuff because milsurp is cool but got damn your even cooler now
Strip it down and clean it up. Then make another video of it all cleaned up and show us the end result.
I'm pretty sure RTI and Classic would sell that rifle for full price or even overpriced.
Especially Classic
Facts
Yeap thieves.
@@behindenemylines3361 hmmm, I thought RTI was worse.....
@@benjimenfranklin3668 no, stop being a communist.
That Carcano is better than the full-price Carcano I got from RTI. You killed it on this pickup!
Yeah I got a rusted rifle that I can’t even disassemble because the cross screw is broken on the nose cap I’m almost tempted on drilling it out.
A Carcano rifle was used to kill Kennedy.
@@imperialweimarball Don't do that. Use an arc welder to weld on a tiny lever then unscrew it.
During the early 90s, I was buying these three at a time. Some came in in very good condition, and others look like they were used to get stuck vehicles out of the mud.😂 nonetheless most of them were cleaned up and sold to friends. Those are the days when they were delivered for $7.50 and cost under $60 each.
I want to see a 30 minute video dedicated to military surplus ammo, where are you show the different kinds of calibers that are popular, some common brass case, some common military surplus ammo and talk about which you prefer shooting which is your favorite to reload, etc.
I managed to snag two of the M91's. First one had some trigger reset issues, due to the trigger binding in the stock which was remedied by scraping some wood from the inside. The first one was also missing its top handguard. Second one had a superficial split on the right side of the stock at the magazine area, which can definitely be epoxied back together. Other than that, Completely mechanically sound, so I was super stoked for $60 a piece!
where are you guys getting these guns . Am I looking in the wrong places
I had my grandfather's Carcano. I handed it down to my son. It's a model 38. (7.35X51). It doesn't have the original stock. It has a sporterized stock. Still a good shooter though. I used it in some competitions, and it put plenty of food on the table over the years.
I have it’s brother, same year, manufacturer and serial number block. This block is out of the normal series and it’s been conjectured (by very knowledgeable people, not gun show Fudds) that it was a special run for the Pubblica Sicurrezia.
make sure there is no bulge in the barrel and it has good headspace before you shoot it.
I can see you're a man of culture by your tshirt.
Yup he had a Dragon Ball shirt on in another vid and I made the same observation :)
The very first deer I ever killed was with a Carcano that belonged to my Grandfather. I still have the rifle, he brought it home with him as 'spoils of war' trophy. It has some high mileage on it but still works great. Does not have the bayonet on it and never did to my knowledge because it has no mount for it. I keep it hanging over the mantle with an 1840-pattern heavy saber. Nice to see ppl interested in history
I miss all the good deals now a days, 😢 been a C&R license holder since 94 so I've gotten in the past.
1891 carcano bayonet. Wish I could have grabbed one they sold out in a flash. Great content as always man.
I'd bought a pre-1918 cavalry carbine on sale from rti. Got a kinda beat 1917, but it was mostly stock repairs in the past, one rusty patch about 4" from muzzle inside bore. Smoothest bolt, and it's great for dropping hogs out back. Based on that, I bought a "nice" one, from the "no handguard" sale, and got one same year as you, in same or slightly better condition. I'd say you did great.
Back in the 90s they would give you a carcano if you bought a AK 47 they were that unwanted. You could buy one for 40 dollars in like new condition. The junkie ones were 29.95 .
Reminds me of the gun store outside the main gate of my base...SKS carbines and rifles selling for $25 each because GI's returning from Viet-Nam with war trophies and then selling them to the gun store for cash. Some of those rifles were actually unused, captured from arms cache's in the field. Should of bought one...smh
@@tonyv8925 Yes, indeed. I wouldn’t buy an skis for what they are asking now. AK-s are real stupidly inflated as well.
Congrats seems ya got a complete n decent bore rifle........I've sold all of my Carcanos few years ago because even though I reload getting proper projectiles or even milsurp ammo is very hard to get.... Now with the "African Dump" it will be very hard to buy food for these old war horses...... be well.......
I believe that Carcano 6.5 ammo will be available in quantity in the future as there are so many of these being imported it will be worthwhile for manufacturers to meet this new demand. I now have 3 of these, an original WWI long rifle and 2 carbines.
that was a great deal considering gun prices in 2023 , always wanted one
I bought one of these about 4 years ago. Looked good but had slight damage to the crown. Bad enough to cause keyholing. Sitting in my safe. You hit a good deal.
Put a fresh crown on it and make sure you are using proper diameter bullets. PPU is loaded with .264 bullets and they are too small to be stabilized in many carcanos.
@@PraxesArdenn You are correct. I'm using Hornady .267 160g bullets. Already started fooling with the crown but never got back to it. Thanks for input.
My first hunting rifle when I was a kid was a 7.35 Terni. You used to be able to buy them at second hand stores in the 60s and 70s. They would have barrels filled with them and sold them for 8 or 10 bucks.
Wow!!! I wish I was able to pick one of those up.
When I openned my Gunsmithing shop in the 1990s, I'm mounted an 1891 Carcano rifle over the front door. I took it apart and painted all the metal black and painted the wood brown with oil-based house paint. Then I drilled two holes through the stock and bolted it to the wall outside the shop over the front door in the weather. I was never worried about the weather damaging it or anybody trying to steal it, because it was a carcano and absolutely nobody wanted one! Even the ATF agents didn't care that one of my inventory items was kept outside "unsecured ". I closed the shop and took it down in 2000.
I didn't cash in onto those since I was busy, which I did because a lot of them came to be in shootable condition. I did purchase 2 rifles from RTI right. A B grade 1891 Carcano rifle and the 150$ carcano carbines without the handguards.
I used to buy 8mm mausers at big 5 for under 200 dollars i ended up with 5 of them and they were all great shooting rifles
Nice! I bought a worse condition one from a LGS last year for double that and I thought it was a great deal. Maybe the 6.5 Carcano ammo stays scarce for a while and keeps the prices low.
also blueing like that is rare. its so beautiful it makes me wanna cry 😢
Wow, a friend gifted me a WWII era Carcano sporterized carbine in 7.35 x 51 cal; I fired it next to my WWII Mauser, and it is just as accurate as the Mauser, or at least, I shot it as well as the Mauser.
Watching this unboxing and several other Carcano unboxings from tiger imports, I realize what GREAT shape mine is in! Better than any of these I've seen. Thanks!
I think you did very good. I used to buy n sell mostly military rifles by the pallets full. Congratulations 😊
Congrats on your purchase
You gotta darken the stain of that replacement handguard! I bought a very nice 1914 cavalry carbine from dk and I most recently got an extremely nice 42 CC from RTI, sale price %135. Very lucky with that one.
Wow that was a great deal. Most vendors would sell that for 2-3x more.
Great deal?
That's like saying "I found a barn full of 1988 Yugos, I'll sell you one for $50!"
In the end - it's STILL a Carcano. Nice wall-hanger, almost relevant in a historic way.
But $60 is still too much if you're expecting a usable rifle.
@@MaelVampire99 nah, in just parts it's worth quadruple that.
I thought that He also said it is likely to fire.
@@MaelVampire99 yup parts alone worth way more and agreed I don't recall him saying it's not safe to fire.
You won the lottery there!
That was hell of a deal you got
That's a score for sure! Enjoy!
I have a few Mosins. They have great bores and shoot accurately at 100 yards (limit of my eyes). However, no matter what I try, I can not get the bores to shin up like chrome. In fact no matter how clean I try to get them, they stay black. Any help on getting the bores to shiny would be appreciated. Again, they shoot excellently and the refilling looks good and the headspace is right.
You can't get dark bores to shine up because of the use of corrosive ammo . Unless they went to a foreign country, most ww2 and later arms made in the USA never had corrosive ammo fired in them. There is still a lot of corrosive primed ammo in non nato countries. And old surplus ammo as well.
I'm actually a little jealous!! Lol
Excellent find!
These days I’m kicking myself for selling my .303 Enfield about two years after I bought it. It only cost me $65 waaayyy back when…about 30 years ago. Besides a weak magazine spring which was common on old surplus Enfields, it functioned just fine. IIRC, I could only get 8 rounds to feed reliably from the mag. Not bad, considering it was at least 50 years old when I bought it.
Love the video. Can you please do a video on the mosin nagant going over 2023 prices and availability….
Wow, DKOldies is really branching out!
For $60 put a clip-in close the bolt and see if she fires or if the pin and spring are damaged?
You need to go buy some lotto tickets with your luck 🍀🍀🍀 cleaning up this rifle would be a blast. Please do a update video 👍
Love it... I bought an m44 for $60 wish I bought them all
Im heading to the big Tulsa show coming up but Im not even really excited for it because I know everything I see will be insanely priced. I went a few years ago and got good deals on an 1889 Swiss, a Budapest M9M and a Turk short Mauser, but I have a feeling Im not going to see anything reasonably priced this time. Hope I am wrong.
Didn't the Italians basically cut down their long rifle m91's to turn them into carbines? Only problem being the rifling track in the barrel isn't long enough anymore as a carbine to spin the bullet properly
I once bought a couple Mosins cheap like that from a distributer. Both had sewer pipe bores totally rotted but the outsides were fair. Junk rifles are not worth any amount of money unless you are using them as fence posts.
Awesome score man, congrats!
I finally took the Cavalry Carbine Carcano plunge last year on a couple from RTI when they had them on sale for $130. Luckily, I ended up getting two that were in very nice condition with all matching sn's.
Looks better than the one I got, and that was supposed to be "good" condition.
Got you beat, I acquired from a hoarder house cleanout An M1 carbine rifle with original mags and ammo for $60. the manufacturer of the rifle, General Motors. it can dump a 30 round mag in about 8 seconds in my hand.
I Recently Ordered a Yugo M48 from RTI and was very disappointed in My Purchase and im still waiting to hear back from them
If you could get a brand new wooden stock for about the same price before shipping as you paid for the rifle, I’d say you got a steal.
Whats a score! Might be better than the Hungarian M44 I got for 80 bucks a few years back.
Never thought I’d see a man wearing a Sailor Moon shirt while talking guns. I approve
i have one not from them but what is unique about mine is the original serial number is A3777 A three of 7's pretty neat
*Lucky bastard. Congrats on such a great buy!* 👍
I've seen these websites before. I thought they always cut the Barrell and receiver to make it non functional. But your saying I could get a fully functional firearm? I might look at these sites again.
Better then the $3000 the CMP gets for old M1Garands. It’s ludicrous the $ they get.
Great Score mate. Cheers from Oz 🇦🇺
Reminds me of when I got my Mosin Nagant... for $99... compared to what they offer today at 4x the price mine is in GREAT shape... 1939 Soviet model
DK is one of my local gun stores . They are good folks and its always a pleasure doing business with them . They even let me bring my Dobermann inside. 😎👍🏻
Headspace will be the "final nail in the coffin". Good luck.
Excellent video. thanks.
I sighed up for DK now I’m gonna wait to see if these restock 😂
I LOVE THE SAILOR MOON SHIRT! :)
How much was the Carcano that Oswald bought .... they might be cheap , but plenty accurate
I have one of those but, after shooting 6 round, the barrel get hot as hell. Can you explain? Thanks
Yet another great video👍👍.Question; Did you find any pasta when you opened the trap door in the Buttstock.😂😂🇮🇹
My thing with the car condos is the fact that I never see them in good condition. Unlike a lot of the military surplus rifles that I can pay less for a beat up one or more for a good one, I’ve never seen a car Cano that was in unused condition the same way you could find with other things. Anyone know why that is? Do they not store these as well as Russia? For example or China?
You got the jackpot on that deal . I will find one one some day
Oooh we have the same tolkienposter at the wall.mine is over 20 years old maybe more 👍😉
Do you have to go through a FFL dealer and get put in the system when you buy these ? Then Uncle Sammy and the ATF has your info. ?????? (Name, Address, DOB, serial numbers, and more !!!!
Headspace. Check that headspace before firing.
Awesome deal!!
Only thing of great interest is the condition of the barrel inside. Video is worthless without. Carcano was my first rifle back in the 60’s. Pre NFA act, they were sold out of a large barrel in Globe dept store sports dept. I believe for about $8-10-your choice. No paperwork, however I had to bring an adult along as I was 13.
I am absolutely kicking my own ass for not getting some of those while they were being sold haha
I wouldnt take that carcano or any carcano for free. Id tell them they can throw it in the trash where it belongs.Milsurp stuff is now a joke. Museums dont want your antiquated rusty trash.
Awesome video RR
Good score!
That was a great deal!
Killer score!
Nice find.
The first thing the armor checks is headspace. 🤔 Hmm?
Nah....the deal of the decade was a few years back when you could buy crates of straight-from-the-arsenal, still-wrapped-in-cosmoline mosin nagants by the 20 rifle crate for $69 each!
The Carcano makes the Mosin look like a Remington 700.
You got a nice one there. You into carcano rifle’s? Maybe you can help me, I got a carcano in 7.92 Mauser that I need a replacement barrel for. Got any clues were I can find one?
You could try numrich gun parts they may still have. A take off good luck
The Carcano I bought recently from RTI was incomplete and WAY overrated. Borderline junk. I won't be ordering any more from those guys. This one in your video looks great! Excellent purchase.
Every time I look DK firearm’s website, nothing is available!
Damn, I need a stock and rear sight adjustment
I have the same gun. But I need help. The bayonet you used I also have, it's a carcano bayonet. Question... my scabbard is marked A.R.E.T 1933 In the leather just below the brass top on the scabbard. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
That's not a question.
You scored, for sure!
might want to check the head space before calling that rifle ready to go
any relation to DK Oldies?
I'd definitely check headspace
Non firing!?? Ok, I have one in 6.5. I shot the heck out of it. Shoots fantastic ,with my hand loads. Hand Loads work great. I use the 6.5 160 round nose. It was from Hornady. But it's discontinued from them . They need to bring it back. Glad I purchased when I did.
I need one for my collection..dang! Missed out.
How do you know about these flash sales?
Where do you find these deals?
Got a great deal man
I guess life is like a boxed Carcano - you never know what you will get.