![]() The chamber throat is also much longer on the early carbine than my Model 1891/09 carbine. Their rear sight bases are identical, but the ladder graduations are different. The later Model 1891/09 carbine rear sight goes to 1,400 meters. I do have a Model 1891 cavalry carbine with a sight which only goes to 1,300 meters. The Argentines apparently did not consider it a high priority to convert all the carbines. I have never seen a long rifle with the early ladder sight, but have seen a number of cavalry carbines with early rear sights. The later Model 1891/09 rifle sights are graduated to 2,000 meters. He did not have such a rifle, but had handled one in Rosario while he was collecting information for a book he was writing. An advanced collector told me that the early Model 1891 sights only went to 1,800 meters. ![]() The original Model 1891 ladder sights for RN bullets had shorter maximum ranges. ![]()
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