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pisces_kelp at MFF. Oddly wanting a 1870's Italian Vetterli rifle with a scope. all based on some game.
Why a scoped Vetterli escapes me.
pisces_kelp at MFF. Oddly wanting a 1870's Italian Vetterli rifle with a scope. all based on some game.Why a scoped Vetterli escapes me.
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Yeah the scope is probably only something you'd find in the game, Hunt : Showdown, but it's not the weirdest thing. https://youtu.be/4klpEDZwtnQ?si=Vc8On5xwLq97L18A
Heh, my last Carcano, a M31, I literally bought for $25 years ago. It was in mint condition . But when it cost me $40 for 20 rounds of Norma ammo. I decided to sell it off. I had a guy at a gun show seriously want to trade for it, I straight over traded it for an ORIGINAL Nagant M-91 Sniper rifle. Thankfully this was just before Century started selling off Nagant "Sniper rifles". They scored a ton of PU scopes and mounts and started mounting them on surplus M-91s and even M-38 and M-44 carbines (Which the Soviets NEVER did!).
Thing was, Original Nagant Snipers have a dove tailed stock forward of the magazine and were blued After the holes were cut for the PU scope mount. The Century "Sniper" rifles were crudely cut at the stocks and painfully obvious. Worse yet, they simply drilled holes and mounted the rails. Instead of the lower bar on the PU scope at the normal 9-3 position, Some were at the 10-11-1-2 position (A friend stupidly bought a Century one at a gun show a few months later for $250 and to his horror, couldn't adjust the scope to hit the paper unless the bars were literally in the top left portion of the scope.) I think I came out on top over that Carcano. Just before I moved from Tucson, the Tucson Mob was all jazzed to buy up 7.35MM Carcanos because surplus ammo was flooding in from Ethiopia. I resisted to join in that decision and within a few months, the surplus 7.35 ammo dried up and hasn't been seen since. And Norma 7.35 ammo was $60 a box! I haven't looked at a Carcano since, I shudder to think the price of Norma 6.5 Carcano now, IF you can even find any.
Thing was, Original Nagant Snipers have a dove tailed stock forward of the magazine and were blued After the holes were cut for the PU scope mount. The Century "Sniper" rifles were crudely cut at the stocks and painfully obvious. Worse yet, they simply drilled holes and mounted the rails. Instead of the lower bar on the PU scope at the normal 9-3 position, Some were at the 10-11-1-2 position (A friend stupidly bought a Century one at a gun show a few months later for $250 and to his horror, couldn't adjust the scope to hit the paper unless the bars were literally in the top left portion of the scope.) I think I came out on top over that Carcano. Just before I moved from Tucson, the Tucson Mob was all jazzed to buy up 7.35MM Carcanos because surplus ammo was flooding in from Ethiopia. I resisted to join in that decision and within a few months, the surplus 7.35 ammo dried up and hasn't been seen since. And Norma 7.35 ammo was $60 a box! I haven't looked at a Carcano since, I shudder to think the price of Norma 6.5 Carcano now, IF you can even find any.
I last saw a Vetterli at a gun show a couple years ago, it was in immaculate condition. But I knew it would just be window dressing to own. I only own one rifle thats window dressing and thats a 1871 Martini Henry I got for $120 , mainly cause of the movie Zulu. I used to see original rounds for sale in bulk that came from Nepal, they all looked like home made rounds, I regret not buying just a single round just to have, but at the time, didn't own the Martini Henry.
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