Carcano M1891

Following the advent of the first smokeless cartridges and its defeated attempts in colonizing Ethiopia, the newly formed Italian state began to look for new rifle designs to replace their black powder arsenal. In the end, Italy would settle upon Salvatore Carcano’s Fucile Modello 1891 magazine-fed bolt-action rifle, making use of the 6.5x52mm Carcano cartridge. The M1891 (often referred to just as M91) was designed at the Turin Army Arsenal during 1890 and had many advanced features for the time, including an intermediate cartridge, a six round en-bloc clip and magazine based upon Ferdinand M...