Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Slow Motion: Scotti Model X" video.
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+Bojan Milankovic When the Italians designed the cartridge, round nose was the only option, since the spitzer rounds wee introduced later. Surely they could have switched to pointed cartridges at a certain point (spitzer rounds were used for marksmanship competitions), but, since the 6.5x52 cartridge had ever been on the verge of being replaced (first with the 7X40 of the Terni M.21, and then with the 7.35X51) the change has always been postponed.
As for the power of the cartridge, with 2572J is perfectly comparable to other 6.5 service cartridges of the time as the 6.5 Arisaka (Japanese service cartridge), 6.5X53R (Romanian/Dutch service cartridge), 6.5X54 Mannlicher Shonauer (Greek service cartridge), not surprisingly, since many of them were direct copy of the 6.5X52 design (that's particularly true for the 6.5X53R and 6.5X54, That Mannlicher obtained from the cartridges' samples that were given to him to compete in the concourse for the design of the Italian service rifle), with only the 6.5X55 Swedish/Norwegian being slightly more powerful. More surprisingly, it's power is perfectly comparable to that of several of the most modern 6.5 rounds, as the 6.5 Grendel, or the 264 USA, that The US Army Marksmanship Unit is studying to replace both the 7.62x51mm and 5.56x45mm NATO, and whose case is even obtained from a shortened Carcano case.
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