Finally, the light weight yeilds a truly staggering kick, making the gun hard to control. Second, the barrel is short, and I have a hunch that the powder doesn't burn totally before the bullet exits, as it would in a long rifle. So there is a lot of extra chamber space. First, the throat on the gun was cut for a long, heavy, round nose bullet and current surplus is light, short, pointed bullet stuff. Answer: the current military surplus has, in my experience, been very hot and inaccurate in my 1891 carbine. Some were afterwards also used on cannons and tanks and received a new reticle and had the elevation adjustment removed.Ok, now let's actually ANSWER the question. The scopes were used up to the Falkland wars up to 1982 and beyond, some claim they were even used on the FN FAL. After that, until May 1927 there was no more supply tooking place, both the scopes and mounts were put in storage at Venlo, where the Argentine had left them unpaid until this date, when they were finally delivered and therefore also got the official designation Model 1909/27. The first 100 scopes were delivered within three months after the contract was signed. The Argentines also wanted a suitable mount for their scopes, they therefore also ordered a mount in Germany. The scopes were delivered to Argentine through the Belgian intermediate dealer "Schneider", who was already participating in the delivery of the SOM scopes.
This company was located in Venlo, close to the border of Germany and under the rule of Zeiss. They bought a Zeiss Zielvier, but since the treaty of Versaille prohibited the export of military equipment from Germany to any other country, the scope carried the name "Nedinsco", what was an abbreviation of "Netherlands Instrument Company". The contract of the first 500 scopes was signed on 23rd October 1923. €dit: to the question on the origin of the scope and mounts: General Maglione (president of the commission which already ordered the first SOM scopes from France) wanted to have 1500 scopes. In contrast, many M1909 Cavalry Carbines are know which do not only have the SOM scope base on them, but in fact have the scope base numbered to the rifle (and to be more precise, all of them are in the A suffix block, aswell as there are no other M1909 variants known with the SOM mount). At least that is my experience with the Zeiss Nedinsco scopes.īesides that: is also easily proofed by the fact that Colin Webster mentions that the SOM scope bases were mounted to M1909 Engineers Carbines, but doesn't give any source or shows a picture of a rifle. However, it's exactly the opposite as of him telling that Engineers Carbines were used as snipers - they were not. All people believe that Cavalry Carbines were never used as sniper rifles, because Colin Webster has written that in his book.
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