Vetterli-Ferracciu for the Italian Navy

Wow, I always thought that cartridge was only going about 1300 fps......2000 fps would smack hell out of ya.

Your sarcasm is duly noted and appreciated.

Tube magazines are with all their faults are still a huge tactical advantage over single shots, just ask Custer.

The whole gun looks like pasta.

Thankfully, with modern technology, we no longer have to worry about "peak rolled R's" due to the development of Thorium Rolled R reactors, which are capable of transforming common, inert, non-rolled R's into more-useful rolled stock by bombarding them with alveolar particles with a trill + spin.

I just saw a vetterli in my local gunshop like a day before this vid. Wierd

Wow the condition of this rifle after +100 years.

hi, Ian !!! this rifle is a piece of great history !!! it tells to us the story of italian marines, that they fighting together english yankee et al ... in China during the BOXER RIOT, at early of twenty century !!! i wish you thankyou for this great video ... ciao

The much less known spaghetti western: “A Tubefull of Cartridges”.

Ferracciu(Ferraçiu) is different than Ferruci(Ferruçi)

Is it just me or is it always the Navy (no matter the country) to adopt a new, better, design than anyone else?

C&Rsenal needs to do a vid on it..

Just how rare are these exactly? I remember at my old work seeing one of these as a barreled action/stock with the bolt tack welded into the receiver. It was the exact same, except the stock didn't have the internal cutout for a tube magazine. I think the barrel said 1882, and the maker had two letters in an elegant script I didn't recognize.

what was the hole in the rear sight for ?

Vetterlis are always interesting. It sounds like the ballistics compare favorably with the Krag- slightly heavier bullet of larger caliber at similat velocity, maybe just a tas slower. So it should have some thump. Just as i finished thinking, it doesn't look like there is any provision for stripper clips, Ian mentions them. I seem to remember articles by Dr Fackler where he mentioned using his 10.4 mm Swiss Vetterli as a benchmark in his study of wound ballistics, and it was comparable to 45-70. The old blackpowder cartridges were nothing to laugh at, except maybe the 41 rimfire......

Why no lever action I need a time machine and to shove the old cranky guy in the closet .

I use this rifle in Hunt: Showdown. It kinda sucks. LoL!

Nice try...............but no pizza..........

I think there is a certain aesthetic, a certain elegance to these older firearms that is missing in the modern utilitarian arms. The Swiss target rifles and Vetterlis are good examples, but the target version of the trapdoor Springfield is another. Thanks, Ian.

why didn't they just use the standard Vetterli with the 12 shot tube magazine with the cutoff if they wanted more firepower?

Strategic reserve of rolled R's! 😂🤣

Ah, yes, the ISRdRR is a famous arsenal. I think they also stockpile catcalls and V12 engines.

It was also issued to colonial troops despite the Carcano being already in service.
See Adwa. :)

My god Italians have terrible guns

Sorry to be "that guy", but this is one of my favorite rifles in Battlefield 1. I'd love to get my grubby little mitts on a real one.

For the next challenge, try to say "trentatré trentini entrarono in Trento tutti e trentatré trotterellando" ;)

What a beauty!

Carrrrrrabina a Rrrrrrepetissione Vetterrrrrli Ferrrrrrucci
It didn't use up the Italian Strategic Reserve of Rolled Rs,
It was the Italian Strategic Reserve of Rolled Rs.

Great video as always, anyway!

Ian, I love you dearly, but man you didn't get a single Italian word right lol

This weapon is in battlefield 1 damn good

Chi altro è Italiano, ed è scoppiato a ridere quando Ian ha detto "credo di averlo pronunciato bene"?😂

I actually own a 1881 variant of this rifle, it still fires as far as I am concerned.

I haven’t finished the video but since it’s Italian so I’d say it was in service in about 1940
Edit: dang I was only 70 years off

amazing video as always, also do you plan of doing one of the vetterli-bertoldo too? i'm interested into their tube magazine mechanism :)

That’s a really sweet looking rifle.

Yeah I have a standard usually you give everybody a good answer could I get away with firing modern ammo out of this or is that a bad idea

Hunt showdown

Thanks for the historical aspect of these rifles. Always interesting to see what happened and how they came to be used. Thanks for sharing Ian.

Ferraciu' Fer-a-choo pronunciation.
Bertoldo Ber-tol-doe pron.
Great expose' on V-F short rifle.
Doc AV

Watched 8 20 22

It was used in the Italo-Turkish war (1911-1912)

Jóia 😀

I found a similar vetterli at a rummage sale for $5 it’s welder shut tho. But the bolt still slides good

Very cool.

More Vetterli videos please! I just recently took an interest in Italian firearms and I find this one to be one of the more fascinating and very good looking guns i've seen.

I like it and the round is crazy looking honestly ww1 guns are the coolest of guns

That looks surprisingly ELBONIAN!