-=> TIM RICHARDSON wrote to PAUL QUINN <=-

 PQ>Very few people know of a semi-automatic Carcano which used the same
 PQ>ammunition (refer: Scotti Model X - Italian prototype).  That I think was
 PQ>the second shooter's preference.  (A semi-auto has an advantage that you
 PQ>may appreciate.) There were very few in circulation but several possibly
 PQ>in government armouries 'for evaluation'.  Nudge, nudge...

 TR> At the time of Kennedy's murder I owned a 6.5 Mannlicher-Carcano.
 TR> It was the same exact thing Oswald used to kill Kennedy. It held
 TR> six rounds. It was a bolt action and you could not rip off the
 TR> shots as fast as the shots were fired in Dallas. The bolt would
 TR> not work that fast. I bought it in a gun store for less than
 TR> $7.00 including tax, off a table piled with WWII surplus weapons.
 TR> I listened to the replay of the shooting at the time it happened
 TR> in 1963...and didn't believe it was a 6.5 Mann-Carc at the time.
 TR> By then I'd fired mine many times and used to get pissed at how
 TR> hard and slow the bolt worked between shots. The more you fired
 TR> it the harder the bolt became to work. (No wonder the Italians
 TR> lost the war!)

Not quite sure what you mean here with "the bolt would not work 
that fast".  On any bolt-action rifle I've ever seen/used, the 
bolt works exactly as fast as the operator makes it work.  Right?

Maybe it could have used a cleaning?


... Do they dream?
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