Post #127007 by Shipwreckjoey on Tue, Nov 23, 2004 12:51 AM

On 2004-11-22 16:32, tiki mick wrote:
Perhaps do-able with a modern rifle, but the Manlicher? A notoriously inconsistent rifle!

I guess it was because the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was cheap, readily available and you could order it through the mail...no questions asked. You think American gun laws are relaxed now, back in the early sixties you could buy a gun like you'd buy a pack of cigarettes.