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My impression was they built or converted most of 'em to 6.5mm. Only the early 38's were in 7.35mm, and my impression was they switched back to 6.5mm as the war progressed. Be happy to be shown wrong.
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Quoted: most carcanos were 7.35mm. If you ever run across a nice 7.35 hit me up, might help you turn a quick profit by selling it off to me :-) I love them. Took my grandfathers old one (sporterized :-( ) and had a fun day shooting 100 rounds with it. Nice shooting rifle, unfortunately not given much respect. I haven't hunted with it, but I would bet that from 50-150 yards it would make a mighty fine deer hunter.
My impression was they built or converted most of 'em to 6.5mm. Only the early 38's were in 7.35mm, and my impression was they switched back to 6.5mm as the war progressed. Be happy to be shown wrong.
Well I think you threw me with the 7.7 reference. It's my understanding the 7.35 was made to overcome some inefficiencies with the 6.5 carcano, thus some 6.5 barrels were rechambered to 7.35 as well as new 7.35 barrels. Later though logistics and war made the decision to stick with the common supply of 6.5.
There of course are conversions to 8mm by Germans for their people's army. And if it recall some Japanese captures in some other uncommon caliber. But the latter two are rare to find.