I had a dude on the reddit milsurp sub arguing with me saying all his Carcanos are nice and smooth and most are that way. I told him I have 5 and my dad has 3 and all of those along with every one I've handled at shops and gun stores are all varying degrees of kinda rough to really rough. He was all heated about it, it was weird. All mine are shorter models, I don't have one of the long rifles. I have yet to find ammo or any combination of about 7 different bullet types of varying diameters that will shoot better than pie plate sized groups at 50 yards. Im still working on some cast reloads with larger diameter bullets. They have good rifling. PPU uses undersized bullets in their commercial 6.5 Carcano unfortunately like you said. They sell fatter bullets for reloading but those didn't shoot well either and were over a thousandth smaller than the listed diameter. They are listed at .268 and my very nice micrometer said .2665 It's been an adventure trying to get those things to shoot well. I did buy a Model 38 a few months ago and haven't had a chance to shoot it yet. I am hoping it does better than the little carbines. I bought some of steinels bullets for reloading and have some loaded up to test, hopefully they show some progress in getting these things to shoot.
If it's PPU they unfortunately use .264 bullets in their commercial ammo and not sure about the long rifles, but every carbine I've tried it in is horrible.
I one of my favorites model of carcano
I had a dude on the reddit milsurp sub arguing with me saying all his Carcanos are nice and smooth and most are that way. I told him I have 5 and my dad has 3 and all of those along with every one I've handled at shops and gun stores are all varying degrees of kinda rough to really rough. He was all heated about it, it was weird.
All mine are shorter models, I don't have one of the long rifles. I have yet to find ammo or any combination of about 7 different bullet types of varying diameters that will shoot better than pie plate sized groups at 50 yards. Im still working on some cast reloads with larger diameter bullets. They have good rifling. PPU uses undersized bullets in their commercial 6.5 Carcano unfortunately like you said. They sell fatter bullets for reloading but those didn't shoot well either and were over a thousandth smaller than the listed diameter. They are listed at .268 and my very nice micrometer said .2665 It's been an adventure trying to get those things to shoot well.
I did buy a Model 38 a few months ago and haven't had a chance to shoot it yet. I am hoping it does better than the little carbines.
I bought some of steinels bullets for reloading and have some loaded up to test, hopefully they show some progress in getting these things to shoot.
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Bullets.264 ? O .268?
if I remember correctly, .264
If it's PPU they unfortunately use .264 bullets in their commercial ammo and not sure about the long rifles, but every carbine I've tried it in is horrible.
Yea, im not a big fan of this rifle