Could a 6.5mm Carcano Have Made 2 out of 3 of JFK's Wounds?

[Bob Prudhomme]

I wonder if anyone has fired one of the Italian made frangible bullets (with, or without, hole drilled in the tip) from a 91/38 into ballistic soap, and photo'd the results?

Dawn, when her husband asked if he should buy an Oswald-look-alike MC 91/38, once asked "Why?" Well, now, there is a good reason.

I believe the M91/38 Carcano found on the 6th floor was a prop, and selected as such because of its compact size. This lent credence to the story of the patsy being able to smuggle the rifle into the TSBD.

The rifle I would have chosen from the 6.5mm Carcano family for the assassination is pictured below:





M.1891/41 was the last model of Mannlicher Carcano infantry rifle.
The rifles with double set triggers were built for the military target shooting.
They were still used in both, national and international shooting matches in the 1960-s.
The arsenal markings are stamped on the back of the barrel, "A Royal Army Crown over FAT 41" (Terni arsenal, 1941).
This model of Carcano rifle was built still in 6.5 mm caliber, but with constant pitch rifling.

Note that the M91/41 was made not with progressive twist rifling, as the earlier M91 long rifles were, but with fixed or constant pitch rifling. As there were a limited number of these rifles made before the Italians signed an armistice with the Allies in 1943, it is difficult to find out much about the rate of twist of the riflings in the M91/41. However, common sense would tell one there would be no real reason to alter the rate of twist being used in the shorter barrelled M91/38, that being a constant (fixed) rate of twist of 1:8.47. This would give a rifling imprint to bullets fired from an M91/41 identical to the imprint left by an M91/38. Even if the rate of twist was different between the two rifles, who would have even noticed? Look at the nonsense fed to the WC by the FBI's firearms "expert", SA Robert Frazier. If no one was able to see through his lies, do you think anyone would have spotted that the rifling marks on the bullets looked a bit off?