The origins of Mannlicher-Carcano bullets
Jefferson Morley
January 2, 2015
An intriguing tidbit from a faithful reader about the bullet that allegedly killed President Kennedy.
“Recently, I was reading the post CSI JFK: The Chain of Custody for “the magic bullet.” Bob Prudhomme posted a reference to “frangible range bullet for the Mannlicher-Carcano.” I didn’t know what that meant. I had to look it up. In doing so, I stumbled across a Web site about the ammunition (not the rifle).
Scroll down to the heading- “Non-Italian Military Rounds.”
It says: