31-05-2014, 04:41 AM
David:
You didn't mention the most important part of the Lipschultz invoice (according to JA and others): The weight. According to the FBI a Carcano 91/38 weighs 7 pounds 11 oz. A crate of 100 of them (in cardboard boxes) would weigh much more than 750 pounds (more than 818 lbs). The 36" inch Carcanos weighs between 6 and 7 lbs, and so 100 of them in thier cardboard boxes might weigh around 750 pounds.
A 36" gun is 90% the length of a 40" gun, so we might expect the weight to be 90% of the 91/38. (Probably with all the different stock designs its hard to be precise.) 818 lbs x .9 = 736 lbs.
Course we all know what happens when we trust the FBI...
You didn't mention the most important part of the Lipschultz invoice (according to JA and others): The weight. According to the FBI a Carcano 91/38 weighs 7 pounds 11 oz. A crate of 100 of them (in cardboard boxes) would weigh much more than 750 pounds (more than 818 lbs). The 36" inch Carcanos weighs between 6 and 7 lbs, and so 100 of them in thier cardboard boxes might weigh around 750 pounds.
A 36" gun is 90% the length of a 40" gun, so we might expect the weight to be 90% of the 91/38. (Probably with all the different stock designs its hard to be precise.) 818 lbs x .9 = 736 lbs.
Course we all know what happens when we trust the FBI...