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Originally Posted by James K
Huh? The Carcano was never exported; it was made only for issue to the Italian armed forces. The ones sold here after WWII were those same guns and not changed or improved in any way.
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Carcanos were sold to the Japanese navy (Arisaka I) prior to WWII, the British Navy(WWI era), and the Finns (in 7.35).
Like I said, I don't know much about the British Carcanos except that the Brits bought them out of desperation during a severe arms shortage. I imagine they were standard 6.5x51 models.
The Jap Carcanos were in 6.5 Arisaka and used a mauser type magazine instead of the Mannlicher clip type, and I think it is a definite improvement. I also think the 7.35 caliber change is an improvement, and although Italy exported virtually all of them to Finland, they only did that because of the logistics issues