Original Italian Rare Model 1856/67 Carcano 17.5mm Needle Fire Converted Bersagliere Rifle French Uniforms endonym Kel Tamasheq

endonym Kel Tamasheq

This bolt action rifle design was revolutionary at the time

which was less "star shaped"

It has a body of brown/green light canvas with a top panel seam of red piping

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Original Italian Rare Model 1856/67 Carcano 17.5mm Needle Fire Converted Bersagliere Rifle French Uniforms endonym Kel TamasheqOriginal Item: Only One Available. As with other countries in the 1860s, the newly unified Italy was looking to modernize the long guns and other arms used by the Regio Esercito (Royal Army). They were still producing and using large bore 17. 5 and 18mm percussion rifles up into the 1860s, when most countries had moved on to smaller bore rifles and even cartridge based arms. Italy unfortunately did not have large resources to acquire new arms, so in