Carcano M91 Review 

"grassy knoll" reference... 😁 Cheap shot

The "open bottom causing jammings" is an armchair mith. Already Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, the future designer of the Fedorov Avtomat, in his observations on the Russo-Japanese war, indicated how the Mannlicher actions in the mud and snow tended to be more reliable than Mauser/Moisin actions, because the passage of the clips kept them clean, while the Mauser/Moisins magazines became tanks of frozen mud, reducing those rifles to single-shooters. That had been confirmed in WWI, where nor the Austrian Steyr Manlicher (an unicum among straight-pull bolt action) nor the Carcano suffered of reliability problems in the trench warfare. The only known reliability problem with the Carcano is caused by the pretty crude follower, that in some sample has problem in raising the last round of the clip straight.

"blow your brains about this rifle" Too soon bro, too soon.

Like they say, if it's good enough for the President...

I feel like this is gonna be the new SKS once people catch on.

Thanks for this video. Your bolt disassembly/re-assembly is the best have seen.

Thanks for the disassembly segment. I've got one of these in the locker waiting for a thorough clean.

Great Carcano breakdown, best Ive seen so far. Just picked one of these surplus rifles up, because well.. just because! Now I just need some ammo!

@17:15 With the Rear Sight flipped forward, the Battle Sight is 300 meters. Flipped back, it starts at 450 meters. And officially, the Sight Alignment apparently is to have the Front Sight in the bottom of the Rear Sight "V". Regarding Reloading, Prvi Partizan 6.5mm 123gr FMJs in .268 will work quite well; along with heavier straight-sided .264s with a flat base, i.e Boat Tails won't work. Keep Velocities to ~2200 FPS. Also, a lot of Reload Info can be found on a site called gunboards.

Good overview of this gun. Thanks!

Thanks for the video I just ordered one 👍🏻

Great informative funny Video! Kept me watching which is a tall order! Got 4 Calvary Carbines now “Thanks a lot”😀

Thank you thank you thank you. Great video! For 30 different reasons(or more). 👍👍👍👍

The United States is a gun lover's paradise. I envy Americans who can own this illustrious Italian rifle. God bless America land of true freedom.

Great review

Great review thanks. I just bought a cavalry and a TS model from PSA. They're rough but so far so good.

Thanks for the intel. I'm waiting on one from RTI.

Those pesky grassy knolls :D Nice video man

I so love the Carcano ping. Waaay long before the "other" ping.

Ah, good old Carcano. The best weapon of choice of Italians through the century. :)

Practical rifleman 👌

Correct on the cleaning rod hidden storage. Incorrect of it being a 2 part. It actually folds in half. Just an FYI. 😁

6:00 "popped that on a berm or a grassy knoll" I heard what you did there. Clever.

Good review and you explained the bolt breakdown well unlike most I’ve seen. The only thing you missed is the progressive twist rifling that helped to stabilize the very long bullet. I used 156 grain round nose ammo from Norma to good effect. I don’t know if those are still available. This weapon has a generally bad reputation that I believe is not deserved.

Hey HGG. Do you happen to have an AG42B? I can't find a video showing full dissassembly/cleaning. You're really good at those. Would appreciate the help! Kind of intimidating for this newbie. Your videos have helped me a lot! Keep up the good work 👍

Looks like you got a nice one there

Make the AR-15 legal again and make all of the other restricted and prohibited firearms non-restricted!

what happened to all of the other steel targets on the 100m range? I've never seen there only be one.

I just can't bring myself to get one. They just look so sad lol. How's the CHAS range? Is it open to bring guests?

I have a cooey carcano it uses 6.5x54ms pretty good shooting

I got mines for $80 US at a gun show. It definitely isn't as pristine as yours. Since the stock is dinged, cracked and chewed up, I'm planning to get a sporter stock for it. The sights are missing, so I'm planning to get a pic rail that screws on to the sight mount.

It was a different Carcano model. The one used was a 91-38

It's fortunate with that open bottom recieever, that book deposiories are about as clean & orderly as a places get.

good review. loved the jokes!

"Good for garbage". I love it 😂😂😂

"There is something that will blow your brains... blow your mind" IM CRYING LAUGHING🤣

Can you use Hornady 160gr 6.5 carcano ammo for that M91?

Good 'show and tell' on this old 'war horse'. Carbine, yeah all day for me,..... IF I could easily get the ammo! How does it shoot though, is it accurate at all? ( Maybe another short video to show this, Adriel? ) P.S. To answer the first question you asked,.... yes, very well, I too can remember where I was and all the other details as broadcast waaay back then! , This is not the same rifle/carbine though, is it? )

Un bel fucile mi è sempre piaciuto. Ne ho uno regolarmente denunciato 8x57 una favola

I’ve noticed with other videos. That the aftermarket clips can jam it. I have had no issues with my 2 original clips

I have a Carcano rifle and in June of 2022 we looked trying to find ammo for it. The cheapest we could find any was one seller had 20 rounds and was selling them for $6.25 USD pre round. Currently looking for supplies to start reloading this round along with the other rounds that we reload,

How was your accuracy? My Privi factory ammo bullets were unstable some keyholing.

That's why there is a gaping hole at the bottom. Very good to know.

Enlisted 😎👌

carcano or Carbine in modern days is still a good riffle from italia, in fact a model was displayed in dallas museum til this day Aug 29 2021 more than 5 decades now. The U.S. defence department is proposing to rename the riffle to john oswald riffle! SO BE IT

Privi loads their factory ammo w/ .264 for some reason, and they sell ".268" bullets for reloading that only actually measure .2665, not even .267 and that's from a 150 dollar Starrett micrometer. So none of my 4 different Carcano carbines would shoot any of that, commercial or the reloads. I've tried two types of cast bullets, the Lee Midsouth shooters mold, and the NOE 13x grain 270 mold, no dice on either of those as well. These carbines are tough to get to shoot decent. I've seen all kinds of people claim theirs are great, but there are no vids of anyone grouping these things benched besides Koba and maybe one other dude and he only shot well w/ Koba's ammo. I have some Steinel cast bullets to try, and some of their solid brass but those are going to be too small Im sure. I may eventually get the heavier NOE 270 mold that Koba uses. I messed up and bought the lighter one, think it's 136 grain and none of my guns like it. I should say I expect any decent milsurp to shoot a 5 shot group about the size of my fist at 50 yards with my properly dialed reloads. The best I've gotten from any Carcano is a dinner plate. The only previous milsurps of mine, out of 55 or so that wouldn't meet this standard at least on occasion were completely shot out bores with barely visible rifling (an Argentine cavalry carbine and a Finn M27). All four of my Carcano carbines range from good to very good bores, so being shot out is not the issue. Anyone that has Carcano carbines in 6.5 that will shoot that well, I'd love to see a vid if possible. My dad bought 3 as well from the same batches in 2020 and he's not having luck either and has been reloading for 50 years.

Bahahah great video!

Do also watch out because some of these rifles shoot other than carcano cartridges some shoot ms some shoot swed do barrel cast or get both ammo and see which fits

I need one 👍🏾🔫

I'm fairly certain that the Oswald rifle was a different model. I would love to do some testing with that model and that ammunition. Everyone who's done testing seems to have ignored the points that would tell us the most.

Does ppu ammo work good enough for range fun at bottles and mebe short range hunting or is the ammo to bad

Can you load it with single and freely stacked rounds without use if the clip?

FINALLY, a video where someone actually speaks English and pronounces “carbine” correctly! That’s a neat little carbine, I never managed to find one in good shape. I did have the TS carbine for awhile.

So, just this cavalry carbine is the only varients to sell? Not the original Carcano rifle and the M38 & M41??

20:53 This sound indeed does not belong to just the garand. The reason ot keeps being attributed to the M1 Garand is because of the American majority part of the internet seeing it as the only enbloc rifle in US history.

Is the ammo expensive?

كم قطر الماسورة من الداخل وطول الظرف الفارغ

Grass knoll... I see what you did there.

Building on a mystery

I dropped my phone when I saw the book depository background. 😳

My safety was broken at 1st day, i received it

My new favorite gun. Even my wife loves it, and she hates guns!

I bedded my action to the stock and free floated the barrel channel. Groups tighted up. Just saying. Try it.

👌👍❤️😊🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

You need a 6.5 swede rifle my friend. I personally the best rounds in that cal

What was that one band??? the dead K something????

It’s a fun gun but a fun fact they called the Calvary carbine but back then the Italians rode bicycles

I thought all guns were banned in Canada?

Canada?

One of my buddy had one. I prefer the mosin over this...

These seem to be hard to find now.

Ol lady wants one, she likes the size, and we’re both broke university students so it’s a good price point lmao

Where's your STRAP?

$800 for a factory lee enfield? If ur lucky

مقاس عيار هذا السلاح

The problem with the Carcano that was allegedly used to kill JFK is that it did not work. The scope was not even mounted nor bore sighted. A shooter could have hit nothing.,

I live in Wisconsin you are saying carbine correctly it doesn’t shoot beans so whoever says it that Way is wrong

For someone with such a gross headset, you'd think they would SYNC THE AUDIO!?

John F. Kennedy? He was a Navy guy in some war, Marilyn Monroe's boyfriend and one if Ted "Lion of the Senate" Kennedy's brothers. That's all I know. Is there more?

Bwhahahahaha

A grassy knoll 😂😂😂

Who is John F Kennedy? Sounds familiar, just off the top of my head I’m sure I’m remember if I wasn’t such a scatter brained. 🤯

I didn’t think you could own a gun in Canada

First!

Great gun for. Nvm....

You didn’t even list where you bought it or how much. I just bought two fir $220 each. Rk guns. Shipped today. $446 total taxed and shipped. Worthless review for ppl looking to buy from retailers real time.

Horrible video!

I feel like this is gonna be the new SKS once people catch on.