{"id":20782,"date":"2017-03-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/09\/book-review-the-italian-vetterli-rifle-by-robert-wilsey\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T12:00:00","slug":"book-review-the-italian-vetterli-rifle-by-robert-wilsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/09\/book-review-the-italian-vetterli-rifle-by-robert-wilsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Italian Vetterli Rifle by Robert Wilsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1xFcBnvvNFo?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Buy the book here: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2lci9Nt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/2lci9Nt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here in the United States, the Italian Vetterli is overwhelmingly found in the 1870\/87\/15 guise, and considered unsafe to shoot. However, this is simply the final transformation of a rifle which saw substantial military service and deserves more respect than the often-haggard examples here usually bring.<\/p>\n<p>Robery Wilsey&#8217;s new book &#8220;The Italian Vetterli Rifle: Development, Variants, and History in Service&#8221; does a very nice job documenting the many different iterations of the Vetterli, including the story of its initial adoption and the experimental work surrounds each progressive update. The design began as a single shot 10.35mm weapon, was then upgraded with Vitali&#8217;s magazine (after trials with many other types), becomes a 4-round repeater. In addition to the common long rifle, both types were made in a variety of different lengths and configurations for guards, cavalry, etc. These would be again converted to the 6.5mm Carcano cartridge and the 6-round Mannlicher type magazine for WW1 service. As these rebuilds took place, a variety of other changes were made to the sights, safety, receiver, and other elements of the guns &#8211; all of which are documented here.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to technical information on the guns, Wilsey has sections covering the ammunition, bayonets, and accessories associated with the system. He has a section on the Italian factories involved in both the manufacture and repair of the guns, and also a section on the far-flung conflicts where the Vetterli saw service (including Russia, Spain, Ethiopia, Libya, Ireland, China, the Balkans, and more).<\/p>\n<p>Cover price is $49.99, and the book is available through Mowbray (the publisher), Amazon, and independent booksellers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy the book here: http:\/\/amzn.to\/2lci9Nt Here in the United States, the Italian Vetterli is overwhelmingly found in the 1870\/87\/15 guise, and considered unsafe to shoot. However, this is simply the final transformation of a rifle which saw substantial military service and deserves more respect than the often-haggard examples here usually bring. Robery Wilsey&#8217;s new book&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/09\/book-review-the-italian-vetterli-rifle-by-robert-wilsey\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: The Italian Vetterli Rifle by Robert Wilsey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}