![]() ![]() ![]() As the military forces began adopting smaller and smaller caliber rifles with higher velocity cartridges, U.S. Naval authorities decided that the new cartridge should be adaptable to both rifles and machine guns. Navy desired to adopt a modern small-bore, smokeless powder rifle in keeping with other first-line naval powers. or Lee Navy Cartridge was also used in the navy version of the Colt-Browning Model 1895 machinegun.īy 1894, the U.S. caliber) cartridge, used an early smokeless powder, was semi-rimless, and fired a 135-grain (later 112-grain) jacketed bullet. The Navy’s official designation for the Lee Straight-Pull rifle was the “Lee Rifle, Model of 1895, caliber 6-mm”. ![]() Navy and Marine Corps in 1895 as a first-line infantry rifle. The Winchester Lee Model 1895 (also known as the Lee Rifle, Model of 1895, caliber 6-mm, Model 1895 Lee Navy, 6mm Lee Navy, Lee Rifle, Model of 1895, etc.) was a straight-pull, cam-action magazine rifle adopted in limited numbers by the U.S. ![]()
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