Yesterday's Weapons Forums

I recently obtained a Bubba'd Carcano, caliber 6.5mm. I don't know which model this gun was originally, probably a cut down M91. The rear strap mount is on the bottom, rather than the side, and the rear sight is the long style. The barrel is 20.5" long and doesn't appear to have been hacked off, but properly cut and recrowned. The the front sight has been replaced with a Lyman long ramp. The stock had GOBS of varnish on it, the barrel and action were virtually varnish-bedded. There was no handguard or any hardware other than the action bolts. The action and barrel, including the trigger assembly, were painted black. The trigger guard/magazine wasn't painted, but was kinda rough. The metal butt plate was in terrible shape, the top screw was indistinguishable from the plate itself. I figured the gun as it was was beyond restoring for reasonable cost, so I opted to at least clean up the mess.

So I bead-blasted the paint from the action, barrel, trigger guard, butt plate, and trigger assembly and reblued them. They turned out better than I expected for a cold blue job. Stripped and scraped the old, gobbed on varnish, then sanded, stained lightly, and rubbed with boiled linseed oil.

I normally wouldn't refinish a milsurp, but this was had already been hacked on. I don't think I paid too much for it, 100 bucks for the rifle, a set of Herter's reloading dies for it, 2 boxes of shells (some Norma and some reloads along with en-bloc clips) and a box (100) of Sierra 180 grain .311" spire point bullets for my Mosins.

Yep an M91 cut down. With the whole gain twist rifling dilemma mentioned in the previous thread. With the herter's dies, Norma ammo and clips not so bad.
The dies were probably made by Redding & you know those are far from cheap. & Norma ammo........ well..............you know that is incredibly expensive stuff

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