Royal Tiger Imports Italian 1891 Carcano Rifle Review RTI 

I'd leave as is. The wire wheel has likely scratched the metal and those fine marks will still be visible under any sort of finish

Like the in depth showing, and thank you for actually bore testing haha I also just like your vibes. One gun channel to another, solid sub.

Thanks for the video and that rifle is ok for the price. Happy New Year.

Nice video. My 1896 came in similar condition though no wire wheel but little metal finish left. I agree good deal

Thanks for posting.

Your serial number is 7243 from Terni, I have VL 5633 from Terni, also dated 1916. My M91 I found in a barn in Vermont in the 1990's. My rifle has a square threaded nut at the back of the bolt instead of a rounded type, which may have been made from an old carriage bolt nut? I wish I new the history of my gun, but suspect that it was likely a bring back from WWII or perhaps WWI? There were lots of Italian immigrants that moved to Central Vermont that worked in the granite quarries, including my own family which came to VT in the 1880's to carve granite. The riffling in my barrel is nearly mint, which may indicate it was a WWI bring back piece. I took a PPU 139 grain bullet and only part of the lead went into the end and I can see a beautiful bore. In my case the stock was shortened a little but has the end barrel band and top wood piece. Thirty years ago, I paid $75.00 for this great piece of history.

Unfortunate about the wire wheeling. Hopefully it turns out to be a decent shooter. I got a 1938 BSA Enfield from RTI I posted on my channel that had all it's original finish but lots of surface rust and rust scale. I believe that may be why many of these were wire wheeled when sadly the rust could have been easily dealt with by the customer by boiling & carding, and some brass brushes to preserve the finish. Try taking it apart and carefully pouring boiling water down the bore and follow up with a brass brush. That will clean any remaining corrosive residue out and help break free some of the hardened crud in there. Id say leave it as is but if you want to refinish it I would use a nice rust blue don't use a cold blue. It would look much better and more like the original finish. For $250 that is a pretty good deal overall.

I picked a M91 Carbine Carcano both RTI and Classic Firearms. The RTI was cheaper and in about the same shape as the CF one. For what I paid I'm not upset. Only shot one so far and it wasn't as terrible as I was afraid it was going to be. The bore on both were both still beautiful. Was able to hit a 12" gong at 100 yards with undersized ammo pretty consistently.

You are correct that even the .264 bullets shouldn't be swallowed. Just compared some .264s on both of my Carcanos and they did go in further than the .268s, but not very far

Thats about the same condition mine came in. Mine was in a little bit better shape but the extractor was broken.

I’ve been tempted to order from RTI many times, but I couldn’t handle the wire wheeling done to the rifles.

Will you make a video shooting the rifle ? Just to see what it does , as far as grouping / keyhole

Hi, I don't understand what you expect from rifles that have been fired in a war, and that have been who knows how many times thrown on the ground and piled up in Ethiopian warehouses. they haven't been in an armory for 100 years, there's no way they're in pristine condition.

Back set the crown an that will deal with a lot of flop.