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7.35 terni ammo

mr.tboltmr.tbolt Member Posts: 449 ✭
edited March 2013 in Ask the Experts
Who has ammo for the 7.35 Terni?
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Graff & Son carries it. It's more commonly know as 7.35 X 51 Carcano. Graff has a large web site that you can find by GOOGLEing.

    Be advised that the Italian rifles used a special clip. If you don't have the clip(s) your SOL. The rifle will only be a single shot. The Graff ammo is newly manufactured commercial packed in 20 round boxes, with no clps.
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  • mr.tboltmr.tbolt Member Posts: 449 ✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks Rufe, I have 5 boxes of vintage ammo and 7 spare clips. I'd like to sell the rifle, but when buyers ask about new ammo, I could never give them a place to purchase it.
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  • deerhidedeerhide Member Posts: 224 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Imagine this;
    Awhile ago I got an old 6.5 on a deal, it came with a full stripper clip. I've had a few of these Carcanos over the years. I just shoved in the ammo and closed the bolt, it was a grubby old gun and it closed hard, quite hard. I never fired it(I wasn't planning on shooting it, just trying the action) then it really didn't want to open. I finally yanked the shell out and IT HAD NO BULLET IN IT and little 'beads' of propellant were everywhere. I had to ram the 7.35 bullet out of the barrel with a piece of threaded rod.........
    A close one what?
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,124 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    General concensus is that those rifles are worthless except to a desperate collector. The few Carcano rifles I've been exposed to were inaccurate and only marginally safe to shoot.
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  • SoreShoulderSoreShoulder Member Posts: 3,148 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Other sources report that they are almost as strong as the Japanese rifles and withstood conversion to 7.92x57.

    Any Carcano clip ought to work because the 7.35 is just a necked up 6.5 and the action is the same.

    Terni is one of the arsenals where those were made.

    Certain Italian police agencies kept using Carcanos into the 1980s.
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