My father owned the same type of Carcano (?) (bought it to give my mother a small, light weapon to hunt deer) rifle that Oswald owned and if his rifle was as much a piece of crap as my fathers, he couldn’t hit anything with accuracy.
When shaken, the rifle sounded like a jar full of bolts. Poorly made and not accurate at all without shooting it for hours to get the feel for were in the heck to point it to hit anything.
It’s a Carcano 91/38 carbine.
I can’t find the ad right now because the net is overloaded with Kennedy stuff. The story I read was that Oswald bought the rifle and a scope through a mail order ad for $12.50.
Perhaps your Carcano had been thrown down too many times by Italian troops retreating in front of the Brits in North Africa.
I had some experience with a Mannlicher Carcano and it was a decent weapon. It was certainly capable of making deadly shots at twice the range Oswald faced.