Talk me out of buying a Carcano. They’re cheap (espicially sporterized), have little to no collectors value...

Talk me out of buying a Carcano. They’re cheap (espicially sporterized), have little to no collectors value, so could litterally beat it to shit and nobody’ll care, assiociated with WW2, and the Kennedy assassination (just a part of history, not saying it was good). Only down side I see is that the ammo is expensive( especially in 7.35x51 Carcano), and you need clips to use the magazine.

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If it was made up out of parts and sold as a 'collector's item' it may not be safe to shoot due to headspace and other tolerance problems. This is a problem with many military rifles not just the Mannlicher-Carcano.

I've also been thinking about buying a carcano op. How are they by you? In chiraq they go for $200

They are an interesting rifle, and a people are either of the "best rifle of ww2" group, or "it's a fence post" group.

They rattle, the safety is awkward despite what pastaboos will tell you, and clips (in decent condition), triggers suck, and ammo can be a pain to find. The sights are kinda neat to play with, and they do look good, but they feel like an Italian mosin, there are much better, easier to feed Mannlichers out there.

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not op but another illinoisbro, found one for 200 as well. seems to be the going price

>have little to no collectors value
Remember when people said that about Mosins 2 years ago?

Good point, but unless people get desperate for a milsurp raifu, I don’t see em going up a whole lot.
So wwyd?
I’ve been looking on gunbroker. Just like Illinois Jow Forumsbro said, that’s about going price. Personally, if it was functionally sound, in pretty good shape, I’d probably get it. On Gunbroker, things are typically a little higher. ~300-4 something for the pic starting this thread. For a sporterized I found some sub 200.

the M38 Caracno short rifles behave like M44 Carbines, very loud and with massive fireballs. They're very fun to mess around with at the range. The folding bayos are gangster but good luck finding one for a non-retard price. You shouldn't have too much trouble finding 6.5 Carcano but 7.35 can be very tricky to obtain in larger quantities.

>They’re cheap (espicially sporterized), have little to no collectors value, so could litterally beat it to shit and nobody’ll care
have you faggots learned nothing from the Mosin price boom? Carcanos are still cheap thanks to fuddlore but they won't stay that way forever. If you bubba the poor thing or drag it over rocks I will slap the shit out of you.

>a people are either of the "best rifle of ww2" group, or "it's a fence post" group.
you say that like there's a debate to be had, it's obviously the GOAT

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If you don't reload don't bother with it.
If you do, go for it.

Wat do?
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I mean that’s pretty hard not to consider.