Before I forget....
The problem for you is that the iron sights were perfectly usable, and a scope that bad would easily found out as a lemon by anyone who shot it."
"The problem for you is that the iron sights were perfectly usable,"
This is not as easy as one might think.....Most American shooters who were familiar with "V" notch sights, would automatically align the top of the front blade with the TOP of the "V" of the rear sight .....But the correct alignment for the Carcano is different....The correct sight picture for the Carcano has the top of the front blade at the BOTTOM of the "V" of the rear sight. It should be readily apparent that any American shooter ( who was ignorant of the correct sight picture for the carcano sights) would fire over the top of his target, and at any range of 25 yards or more would miss a 8 inch bulls eye completely......
Assuming Oswald could not have known that. By the time Oswald got his, tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of Carcanos were in the US. You think no one had figured it out and got the word out?>
Anyway, not that long ago someone handed me a loaded Hudson H9. I pointed it at the target, and pulled the trigger....and hit really low. Tried again; also really low. The third shot was just as low as the other two. At first, I was thinking that I was anticipating, but the grouping was too way close for that to be the problem. I realized that the pistol had a an unorthodox sight picture and started experimenting. After about 12 shots, I found that the correct sight pic was to have the top of the blade bisect the front dot. It's not that hard to figure out.