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Winning Bid US $1982 First bid $1000 Quantity 1 # of bids 8 Time left Auction has ended   Started 2024-08-05 00:00:00 Ended 2024-08-30 23:15:54

RARE!! Winchester, Model: M1895 Lee-Navy Sporting Rifle, Cal: .236 Navy (6mm Lee-Navy), MFG: 1901, S/N: 13830, Straight Pull bolt action rifle, 24'' barrel. The capped pistol grip walnut stock is very good with various nicks, dings, dents, scratches, & wear from use/age. The buttplate is proud to the wood at the toe, likely from wood shrinkage over the years. The bluing on the barrel retains almost full coverage with thinning blue that's toning brown & spots worn to a gun metal gray. The bluing on the receiver retains 95% coverage with areas of thinning & spots of thinning starting to tone brown. The left side of the receiver is marked ''MANUFACTURED BY THE WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO.'', ''NEW HAVEN.CONN.U.S.A.PAT.OCT.10.93.JAN.30.94.OCT.8.95.JULY 5.98''. The top front of the receiver is marked with the S/N. the top rear of the barrel is marked ''.236 U.S.N.'', the left side of the barrel is marked ''MANUFACTURED BY THE'', ''WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN.CONN.U.S.A.''. ''NICKEL STEEL BARREL'', ''ESPECIALLY FOR SMOKELESS POWDER''. The bore is very good. Its bright with strong rifling & some intermitting light roughness. The barrel holds a brass blade front sight with a half buckhorn/V-notch rear sight. The stock carries a blued steel buttplate, areas have worn to a gun metal gray with spots of brown patina. Rifle has no sling mounts. By 1894, the US navy was wanting to adopt a brand new, modern smokeless powder, small bore rifle to keep up with other world navy powers. The navy would go on to develop the 6mm smokeless, semi-rimless cartridge, & would go on to set of trials for the rifle. On august 1st, 1894, the navy would go on to test many different magazine rifles that were submitted to the trial. After a few more trials, in 1895, the straight pull rifle designed by James Paris Lee (who also designed the action in the Lee-Enfield rifle) was selected as the winner. Making it the M1895 Lee-Navy. Winchester was given the contract to produce this new rifle, & 10,000 were ordered by the navy in the first contract in January 1896. these rifles would not be completed until 1897 because of manufacturing delays. Another 5000 would be made which would be a mix of military replacement rifles & civilian market guns up until 1902, & would be sold on the civilian market until 1916. there was a second contract for the navy for 5000 more rifles in 1898, these rifles were assigned the S/N block 15001 to 20000. Winchester made 4,298 rifles in the civilian range, 1,563 are identified as factory sporting rifles, with around 100 first pattern sporting rifles sold but not recorded as sporting rifles. The US Navy purchased 1014 military pattern rifles including those stamped USNM. This leaves 1621 military rifles available for civilian sales. The factory also altered 221 of these military pattern rifles to sporting rifle configuration in 1908, making around 1800 of the sporting rifle variants made, making this rifle quite rare & collectable. This rifle also comes with a Cody firearms museum S/N lookup sheet. FFL or C&R Req. - Value: 2000 to 5000

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RARE!! Winchester, Model: M1895 Lee-Navy Sporting Rifle, Cal: .2... Item # 4491 This auction is over. No new bids can be placed. Price: US $1982

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