Interesting enough, a significant number of 1895 Rifles in the first batch of 10,000 were damaged in a warehouse fire before issue. Some of the guns were condemned, but most were salvaged and issued as they were badly needed. The 1895 USS Texas received some of these rifles and the Captain complained about the charring on the stocks of many of the rifles, but BurOrd said suck it up.
Most guns seem to be inherently overbuilt, the Lee Navy is not one of them, in fact, it seems to have been "not quite done". Several design issues in the first batch made the rifle questionable that would have shown up in protracted testing. In the SAW the rifles were subject to having the bolts fall out as well as the magazine springs losing tension if the gun were kept loaded.