Winchester-Lee Navy

[jmoore]

Any body ever shoot one of these? Seems like every one I've looked at is either broken, missing parts, or just too rough to mess with!

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[jon_norstog]

Any body ever shoot one of these? Seems like every one I've looked at is either broken, missing parts, or just too rough to mess with!

According to the Marines who used them in the Spanish American War, the Lee was a great rifle as long as you didn't pull out the bolt, something that you apparently could do in the heat of battle. Then what happened is you lost the extractor in the grass/dirt/sand.

The Spanish Commander at Guantanamo said in his report, one of the reasons he abandoned his position was that the Americans had machine guns!

jn