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Old January 14, 2014, 02:06 AM   #4
WardenWolf
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There honestly wasn't a huge performance difference between the main bolt action rifles of all the major players in World War II. They were all equally capable in skilled hands, for all intents and purposes. The longest confirmed sniper kill in World War II was with the "crude" Mosin Nagant, at just over half a mile. And I have seen videos of someone hitting man-sized steel targets at 650 yards with the iron sights of an Arisaka 99. The limit was not the gun, but the shooter, in almost all cases.

The Carcano isn't one of the better-known rifles, and history is written by the victors. That doesn't mean it was a bad gun, it just means not many people actually know about them. All these rifles were, for the most part, equal.
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