Carcano carbine made for the Finnish Continuation war 1941-1944

[Confederate Soldier]

Got this one today for dirt cheap. It's missing its clip, and may not be in firing condition (not sure yet), but it has a Finnish acceptance stamp! (SA In a box)

It's 1939 dated, and made by Terni, for the Finnish government during the war. Nearly 100,000 Carcanos were sent to Finland, missing most of the Winter war. They were used during the Continuation war however, but were highly disliked by Finnish troops because of its terrible accuracy, due to the fixed rear sights. Many were discarded at the first opportunity for battlefield pickups, because they disliked the gun so much. Most were issued to artillery, communications, air force and partisan troops, but some were issued to front-line troops.




The continuation war was fought between allied Finns and Germans, versus the Soviets between 1941 and 1944. The conditions were brutal during the winters, and for a while the Finns put up a brave resistance, but when the Finns failed to cut a vital railway line, the Soviets gained the upper hand, and slowly Finland began to lose territory. In order to preserve their nation, the made a ceasefire with Russia, and in 1944, the war was over for the brave Finns.

Finnish soldier with a Carcano carbine

 

[Confederate Soldier]

1srelluc

 

[Bleipriester]

Got this one today for dirt cheap. It's missing its clip, and may not be in firing condition (not sure yet), but it has a Finnish acceptance stamp! (SA In a box)


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It's 1939 dated, and made by Terni, for the Finnish government during the war. Nearly 100,000 Carcanos were sent to Finland, missing most of the Winter war. They were used during the Continuation war however, but were highly disliked by Finnish troops because of its terrible accuracy, due to the fixed rear sights. Many were discarded at the first opportunity for battlefield pickups, because they disliked the gun so much. Most were issued to artillery, communications, air force and partisan troops, but some were issued to front-line troops.




The continuation war was fought between allied Finns and Germans, versus the Soviets between 1941 and 1944. The conditions were brutal during the winters, and for a while the Finns put up a brave resistance, but when the Finns failed to cut a vital railway line, the Soviets gained the upper hand, and slowly Finland began to lose territory. In order to preserve their nation, the made a ceasefire with Russia, and in 1944, the war was over for the brave Finns.




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Finnish soldier with a Carcano carbine

Volodymyr wants this gun.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

Volodymyr wants this gun.

Ivan dogs can't have the gun, but he can have the bullet. We'll even send it via Finnish Speedy Delivery service, free of charge.

 

[Bleipriester]

Volodymyr can't have the gun, but he can have the bullet. We'll even send it via Finnish Speedy Delivery service, free of charge.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

Go fuck yourself, faggot. Death to Russian invaders, and all who support them! Free Europe will prevail against the Soviet scum! The subhumans shall be crushed!

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

they sold a lot of those dirt cheap
lee harvey oswald bought one

 

[1srelluc]

I've had a couple Finn M38s over the years, one was in like new shape with the Italian SA marked sling....They shoot OK for what they are. Clips are available on eBay.

They were not highly regarded by the Finns and they would actually toss them aside when they could get their hands on a Mosin.....Not so much as it was a bad carbine but it faired very poorly in the Finnish winter, same as it faired poorly in the North African desert. The Finns despised the folding bayonet.

Most were imported around '66-'67 along with a shit-ton of Finn Mosins by Interarms here in Virginia, thus most all of them you see have no import markings....In fact I've never seen Finn one that's import marked.

I knew a guy that worked at Interarms at the time hand he told me there were case upon case of brand new M38s with only Finn inspection/property marks.....They were packed with a high quality Italian leather sling for each rifle.....Also marked.

Looks like they just marked them and then nailed them back shut and never issued them....He said Interarms got them super cheap, less than $8.00 each. They got hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammo on clips too. Basically the Finns just wanted to get shed of them.