Italians on the Eastern Front used German rifle grenades

[Dresden]

I have the Grenade launcher made by Cacarno to use the German rifle grenades, it takes the same grenade but uses a wooden bullet to launch the grenade, notice the threads are different on the barrel, I always wondered why the Italians converted a Cacarno to 8mm, the grenade blanks are 8mm Mauser but Italian made.

 

[Francesco_Dif]

The "CARCANO" Mod.91 rifle (not Cacarno) was adopted in Italy in the ww2 with the same 6,5mm caliber of the ww1. Previusly some rifle was tested with 7,35mm caliber (Mod.91/38) but, due the difficulty of sourcing of the new bullet, these rifles were sent to help the Finnland against URSS. Also the 8mm Mod.1888 Mauser was tested, but not adopted. In the 1941 eight rifles just were tested with 8mm RB Breda caliber. At the end of the war some rifles Mod.91/41, under request of german army, was made with unusual 7,92x57 JS caliber and hundred thousand of these was converted in 8mm Mauser caliber from the Heinrich Krieghoff of Vipiteno.

 

[Dresden]

Thanks Francesco,
But if you want to destroy a tank, you needed one of these.
p.s. I sometimes spell poorly