Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Special Troops M91 Carcano Carbine and the M91/24 Carbine" video.

  1. The 91/24 mantained the old rifling, infact they are known to keyhole. However those were intended to be stopgap weapons for rear echelon troops, the ones that in WWI had been armed with the converted Vetterli.
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  2.  @Danimark_92  Actually there were several manufacturers in Brescia that made some batch of Carcano rifles at some point: the Brescia state arsenal (the ONLY rifles that are marked "Brescia"), "Lorenzotti Brescia", "Mida Brescia", "FNA Brescia" (those three are actually the same that changed name several times), "Napoleone e Vittorio Castelli Brescia" and "Metallurgica Bresciana Tampini", anyone with a different stamping, because a stamping indicates a unique manufacturer.
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  3. All the Carcano episodes had already been filmed, so, even if he understood by now, they'll not be fixed.
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  4. Actually to manufacture the 7.35 was cheaper than manufacturing the 6.5. they gave up due to logistic considerations, since they couldn't build enough rifles to equip the entire army in short time, and didn't want to supply two different rifle ammunitions.
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  5. They tend to keyhole, but they were intended to be issued to rear echelon troops, the same that in WWI were armed with converted Vetterli rifles.
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  6. They were the name of the state arsenals.
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  7.  @Danimark_92  So they were the name of the manufacturers, not simply of the city.
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  8.  @Danimark_92  "Brescia" written on a Carcano rifle indicates a precise manufacturer (ONLY ONE), not a city. It indicates that the manufacturer is the state arsenal of Berscia (not other manufacturers located in Brescia. ONLY ONE), not the city. In diferent cities there were different state arsenals, that were different manufacturers. There was nothing like a "royal arsenal" that was located in different cities. There was an arsenal in Turin, One in Brescia, one in Terni, one in Torre Annunziata... that were different industrial entities.
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  9. All the Carcano videos have been already filmed, so the pronunciation will remain the same in all of them.
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  10. Yes. the 91/24 tend to keyhole, but they were intended to be stopgap weapons assigned to rear echelon troops, like the ones that in WWI were armed with converted Vetterli rifles.
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  11. No, it had been made by the, now defunct, Brescia state arsenal (then there were those made by "Mida Brescia" e "FNA Brescia"). The ones made by Beretta are marked "Beretta Gardone".
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  12.  @maledetto1221  the shortening of the old rifles had been made in 1924 and ceased in 1928, when they started to build brand new 91/28TS. The situation ten years later was completely different. Simply the production of new rifles started in 1938, the war in Europe begun a year later, and it was clear that, in case Italy decided to join it, there would have not been enough time to equip all the army with the new caliber. The 91/24 TS were intended to be stopgap weapons for rear echelon troops not destined to the first line. The same troops that in WWI had been equipped with converted Vetterli.
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