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eulero83 -> RE: I have a very pretty club. (9/26/2013 3:39:40 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MalcolmNathaniel
It's finely machined. But I can't buy bullets for it.
Do you know what a rifle without bullets is? It's a club.
This particular club is a WWII Italian cavalry rifle called a Mannlicher-Carcano. It's a rather rare piece; the Italians didn't field a lot of cavalry during WWII.
I think we field none in the WWII, after WWI we called cavalry mechanized units, but the shortest version of the "fucile mod. 91", called "moschetto mod. 91", studied for cavalry was used by other units that had special tasks like:
-bersaglieri, that are choosen shooters with a special training in endurance running or after the 1924 in cycling, they were used for exploraive missions and for fast intervent. So they needed a shorter rifle to not be empired during running or cycling.
-carabinieri, that are police officers but part of the army so they act both as law enforcement in the italian territory and as military police or in fighting action during conflicts abroad.
-royal airforce's patrols that had the task of guards of the airports
-blackshirts, they where the militia of the fascist party, they where party extremists and during the war they were also assigned to support regular army, probably to make sure no anti fascist ideas would spread among the troops and some of them were ordered to commit war crimes, mostly in the balcanic area.
With different finishing and bayonets this rifles were used by the personal gurds of Mussolini and the Duke of Aosta that was "deputy king of ethiopia", the one of mussolini's personal guard has a stock made in ebony and the butt and the bolt where chromed, there was also a fasces and the word DUX chromed on the breech, the one for the Duke had golden finishing and jewels but I guess it's not the model you have.
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