$60 MILSURP RIFLE?! Carcano Gunsmith Special DK Firearms M91 Moschetto Italian Surplus Unboxing 

Watched this video when it first came out a while back and came upon it. Have a buddy that worked surplus warehouses back in the day for Century Arms. He said whenever they had a rifle come in that was in good mechanical shape but had cosmetic issues like this in that batches brought in, the employees who inspected the rifles would mark a select few as gunsmith specials for employees to buy from the company at a good discount. I suspect that is what happenned here. Some employees saw this rifle wasn't in bad shape, labeled it a Gunsmith special with the intent to buy it later, but didn't know about this sale or forgot about it. Kinda reminds me of how certain cop buddies of mine that have a few choice pieces that were saved from destruction in evidence rooms

Strip it down and clean it up. Then make another video of it all cleaned up and show us the end result.

I'm pretty sure RTI and Classic would sell that rifle for full price or even overpriced.

I got 3 of the $59 ones. 2 Were a 1917 and 1918 and were complete rifles, one minor crack on a handguard. The 3rd one I got was missing trigger guard, barrel band screw, trigger/receiver screws, and firing pin/firing pin spring. Still a great price overall!

I managed to snag one. It was missing the buttplate, has a hole in the stock where your hand would grip it(a little bit of work and this was a non issue for me), and finally it took a little cleaning. I got the level style bayonet. All and all, I am blown away at the quality for the price. It was incredible and I agree about a potential purchase of the year.

yo holy shit he's a sailor moon fan? i already was a casual enjoyer of your stuff because milsurp is cool but got damn your even cooler now

Back in the 90s they would give you a carcano if you bought a AK 47 they were that unwanted. You could buy one for 40 dollars in like new condition. The junkie ones were 29.95 .

During the early 90s, I was buying these three at a time. Some came in in very good condition, and others look like they were used to get stuck vehicles out of the mud.😂 nonetheless most of them were cleaned up and sold to friends. Those are the days when they were delivered for $7.50 and cost under $60 each.

That Carcano is better than the full-price Carcano I got from RTI. You killed it on this pickup!

I can see you're a man of culture by your tshirt.

I miss all the good deals now a days, 😢 been a C&R license holder since 94 so I've gotten in the past.

I managed to snag two of the M91's. First one had some trigger reset issues, due to the trigger binding in the stock which was remedied by scraping some wood from the inside. The first one was also missing its top handguard. Second one had a superficial split on the right side of the stock at the magazine area, which can definitely be epoxied back together. Other than that, Completely mechanically sound, so I was super stoked for $60 a piece!

I have it’s brother, same year, manufacturer and serial number block. This block is out of the normal series and it’s been conjectured (by very knowledgeable people, not gun show Fudds) that it was a special run for the Pubblica Sicurrezia.

make sure there is no bulge in the barrel and it has good headspace before you shoot it.

I want to see a 30 minute video dedicated to military surplus ammo, where are you show the different kinds of calibers that are popular, some common brass case, some common military surplus ammo and talk about which you prefer shooting which is your favorite to reload, etc.

I believe that Carcano 6.5 ammo will be available in quantity in the future as there are so many of these being imported it will be worthwhile for manufacturers to meet this new demand. I now have 3 of these, an original WWI long rifle and 2 carbines.

I had my grandfather's Carcano. I handed it down to my son. It's a model 38. (7.35X51). It doesn't have the original stock. It has a sporterized stock. Still a good shooter though. I used it in some competitions, and it put plenty of food on the table over the years.

My first hunting rifle when I was a kid was a 7.35 Terni. You used to be able to buy them at second hand stores in the 60s and 70s. They would have barrels filled with them and sold them for 8 or 10 bucks.

The very first deer I ever killed was with a Carcano that belonged to my Grandfather. I still have the rifle, he brought it home with him as 'spoils of war' trophy. It has some high mileage on it but still works great. Does not have the bayonet on it and never did to my knowledge because it has no mount for it. I keep it hanging over the mantle with an 1840-pattern heavy saber. Nice to see ppl interested in history

I'd bought a pre-1918 cavalry carbine on sale from rti. Got a kinda beat 1917, but it was mostly stock repairs in the past, one rusty patch about 4" from muzzle inside bore. Smoothest bolt, and it's great for dropping hogs out back. Based on that, I bought a "nice" one, from the "no handguard" sale, and got one same year as you, in same or slightly better condition. I'd say you did great.

Wow, a friend gifted me a WWII era Carcano sporterized carbine in 7.35 x 51 cal; I fired it next to my WWII Mauser, and it is just as accurate as the Mauser, or at least, I shot it as well as the Mauser. Watching this unboxing and several other Carcano unboxings from tiger imports, I realize what GREAT shape mine is in! Better than any of these I've seen. Thanks!

When I openned my Gunsmithing shop in the 1990s, I'm mounted an 1891 Carcano rifle over the front door. I took it apart and painted all the metal black and painted the wood brown with oil-based house paint. Then I drilled two holes through the stock and bolted it to the wall outside the shop over the front door in the weather. I was never worried about the weather damaging it or anybody trying to steal it, because it was a carcano and absolutely nobody wanted one! Even the ATF agents didn't care that one of my inventory items was kept outside "unsecured ". I closed the shop and took it down in 2000.

1891 carcano bayonet. Wish I could have grabbed one they sold out in a flash. Great content as always man.

Congrats seems ya got a complete n decent bore rifle........I've sold all of my Carcanos few years ago because even though I reload getting proper projectiles or even milsurp ammo is very hard to get.... Now with the "African Dump" it will be very hard to buy food for these old war horses...... be well.......

Wow that was a great deal. Most vendors would sell that for 2-3x more.

that was a great deal considering gun prices in 2023 , always wanted one

also blueing like that is rare. its so beautiful it makes me wanna cry 😢

I used to buy 8mm mausers at big 5 for under 200 dollars i ended up with 5 of them and they were all great shooting rifles

Nice! I bought a worse condition one from a LGS last year for double that and I thought it was a great deal. Maybe the 6.5 Carcano ammo stays scarce for a while and keeps the prices low.

These days I’m kicking myself for selling my .303 Enfield about two years after I bought it. It only cost me $65 waaayyy back when…about 30 years ago. Besides a weak magazine spring which was common on old surplus Enfields, it functioned just fine. IIRC, I could only get 8 rounds to feed reliably from the mag. Not bad, considering it was at least 50 years old when I bought it.

I bought one of these about 4 years ago. Looked good but had slight damage to the crown. Bad enough to cause keyholing. Sitting in my safe. You hit a good deal.

Got you beat, I acquired from a hoarder house cleanout An M1 carbine rifle with original mags and ammo for $60. the manufacturer of the rifle, General Motors. it can dump a 30 round mag in about 8 seconds in my hand.

I didn't cash in onto those since I was busy, which I did because a lot of them came to be in shootable condition. I did purchase 2 rifles from RTI right. A B grade 1891 Carcano rifle and the 150$ carcano carbines without the handguards.

You gotta darken the stain of that replacement handguard! I bought a very nice 1914 cavalry carbine from dk and I most recently got an extremely nice 42 CC from RTI, sale price %135. Very lucky with that one.

Wow!!! I wish I was able to pick one of those up.

You need to go buy some lotto tickets with your luck 🍀🍀🍀 cleaning up this rifle would be a blast. Please do a update video 👍

Never thought I’d see a man wearing a Sailor Moon shirt while talking guns. I approve

DK is one of my local gun stores . They are good folks and its always a pleasure doing business with them . They even let me bring my Dobermann inside. 😎👍🏻

I Recently Ordered a Yugo M48 from RTI and was very disappointed in My Purchase and im still waiting to hear back from them

I think you did very good. I used to buy n sell mostly military rifles by the pallets full. Congratulations 😊

Looks better than the one I got, and that was supposed to be "good" condition.

Love it... I bought an m44 for $60 wish I bought them all

Only thing of great interest is the condition of the barrel inside. Video is worthless without. Carcano was my first rifle back in the 60’s. Pre NFA act, they were sold out of a large barrel in Globe dept store sports dept. I believe for about $8-10-your choice. No paperwork, however I had to bring an adult along as I was 13.

i have one not from them but what is unique about mine is the original serial number is A3777 A three of 7's pretty neat

Headspace will be the "final nail in the coffin". Good luck.

Im heading to the big Tulsa show coming up but Im not even really excited for it because I know everything I see will be insanely priced. I went a few years ago and got good deals on an 1889 Swiss, a Budapest M9M and a Turk short Mauser, but I have a feeling Im not going to see anything reasonably priced this time. Hope I am wrong.

If you could get a brand new wooden stock for about the same price before shipping as you paid for the rifle, I’d say you got a steal.

Reminds me of when I got my Mosin Nagant... for $99... compared to what they offer today at 4x the price mine is in GREAT shape... 1939 Soviet model

I once bought a couple Mosins cheap like that from a distributer. Both had sewer pipe bores totally rotted but the outsides were fair. Junk rifles are not worth any amount of money unless you are using them as fence posts.

Nah....the deal of the decade was a few years back when you could buy crates of straight-from-the-arsenal, still-wrapped-in-cosmoline mosin nagants by the 20 rifle crate for $69 each!

Awesome score man, congrats! I finally took the Cavalry Carbine Carcano plunge last year on a couple from RTI when they had them on sale for $130. Luckily, I ended up getting two that were in very nice condition with all matching sn's.

The Carcano I bought recently from RTI was incomplete and WAY overrated. Borderline junk. I won't be ordering any more from those guys. This one in your video looks great! Excellent purchase.

Better then the $3000 the CMP gets for old M1Garands. It’s ludicrous the $ they get.

Wow, DKOldies is really branching out!

That's a score for sure! Enjoy!

You won the lottery there!

I am absolutely kicking my own ass for not getting some of those while they were being sold haha

Congrats on your purchase

I sighed up for DK now I’m gonna wait to see if these restock 😂

I'm actually a little jealous!! Lol Excellent find!

Love the video. Can you please do a video on the mosin nagant going over 2023 prices and availability….

I have a few Mosins. They have great bores and shoot accurately at 100 yards (limit of my eyes). However, no matter what I try, I can not get the bores to shin up like chrome. In fact no matter how clean I try to get them, they stay black. Any help on getting the bores to shiny would be appreciated. Again, they shoot excellently and the refilling looks good and the headspace is right.

Oooh we have the same tolkienposter at the wall.mine is over 20 years old maybe more 👍😉

I LOVE THE SAILOR MOON SHIRT! :)

The first thing the armor checks is headspace. 🤔 Hmm?

For $60 put a clip-in close the bolt and see if she fires or if the pin and spring are damaged?

You got the jackpot on that deal . I will find one one some day

Whats a score! Might be better than the Hungarian M44 I got for 80 bucks a few years back.

Headspace. Check that headspace before firing.

Love the thumbnail 🤣

I've seen these websites before. I thought they always cut the Barrell and receiver to make it non functional. But your saying I could get a fully functional firearm? I might look at these sites again.

Didn't the Italians basically cut down their long rifle m91's to turn them into carbines? Only problem being the rifling track in the barrel isn't long enough anymore as a carbine to spin the bullet properly

Excellent video. thanks.

Damn, I need a stock and rear sight adjustment

Back in the 1960's I could buy a Carcano with a scope for $ 15, a gun shop on the Maryland / Washington DC line sold Colt 45's for $45 1917 Colt 45 with moon clips for $ 35 I bought the Revolver......times sure has changed Oh ! M1 Grand for the DMC $ 125 waited two years to get it, it was factory rebuilt like new .

might want to check the head space before calling that rifle ready to go

Non firing!?? Ok, I have one in 6.5. I shot the heck out of it. Shoots fantastic ,with my hand loads. Hand Loads work great. I use the 6.5 160 round nose. It was from Hornady. But it's discontinued from them . They need to bring it back. Glad I purchased when I did.

Great Score mate. Cheers from Oz 🇦🇺

My thing with the car condos is the fact that I never see them in good condition. Unlike a lot of the military surplus rifles that I can pay less for a beat up one or more for a good one, I’ve never seen a car Cano that was in unused condition the same way you could find with other things. Anyone know why that is? Do they not store these as well as Russia? For example or China?

The Carcano makes the Mosin look like a Remington 700.

That was a great deal!

Every time I look DK firearm’s website, nothing is available!

I guess life is like a boxed Carcano - you never know what you will get.

Do you have to go through a FFL dealer and get put in the system when you buy these ? Then Uncle Sammy and the ATF has your info. ?????? (Name, Address, DOB, serial numbers, and more !!!!

Got a great deal man

Received that offer by email. Saw it half hour later, and by that time they were sold out. 😢

How much was the Carcano that Oswald bought .... they might be cheap , but plenty accurate

Good score!

I need one for my collection..dang! Missed out.

Nice find.

rifle unboxing wearing a sailor moon shirt, that's a first for me but hey do you.

As a wall hanger this is really a good deal.......but.....I would not count on making a carcano a shooter, there are many surplus guns that can be shooters. Carcano's are not inherently strong actions and Italian steel back then was brittle.

Yet another great video👍👍.Question; Did you find any pasta when you opened the trap door in the Buttstock.😂😂🇮🇹

I would grade that as an A or A- I would not replace the upper handgaurd as it adds to the charm. Iwnould put some oil on the tiny part of wood that broke off. Remove the fuzz and reoil the stock give it a polish and remove the surface rust. I wonder if these rifles could be converted to something like 6.5 grendel or .223 necked up to 6.5 Brass is expensive for 6.5. You could make a JFK special. I reaload 6.5 carcano and I find with the WW2 non spritzer rounds cast lead power coat is fine for the velocity. Cheap shooting, good brass will last a long time if you seperate the brass as in only use brass for 1 rifle. I do that with all my realods and you don't have to do a full length resize, faster and can last so many loads. Just hope when the war in Ukraine is over we get some crazy stuff and surp ammo.

Awesome video RR

Awesome deal!!

Nice buy for $60 bucks... Good Luck...

Hey would it be cool if the good guys (white hats)would pass out stuff. The term white hat's it's a cowboy from tv no disrespect to black hat's bet G W 1776 would've, to keep the home front safe

*Lucky bastard. Congrats on such a great buy!* 👍

Would like to see a video of it shooting. Otherwise it’s a $60 paper weight.