M1895 Lee Navy

The M1895 Lee Navy was a straight-pull magazine rifle adopted in limited numbers by the United States Navy and Marine Corps in 1895 as a first-line infantry rifle. Its official Navy designation was the Lee Rifle, Model of 1895, caliber 6-mm, and it is also known as the Winchester-Lee rifle, Lee Model 1895 and 6mm Lee Navy. It fired a 6mm cartridge, about 0.236 inch in caliber, which used an early smokeless powder, was semi-rimless and launched a 135-grain jacketed bullet, later changed to 112 grains. The same cartridge was used in the navy version of the Colt-Browning Model 1895 machine gun. Winchester built roughly 15,000 of the rifles, which were used in the Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War and the Boxer Rebellion.