Use smokeless powder, pending the adoption of a suitable propellant it Though ordnance officials were planning to The cartridge wasīoxer primed and had a powder charge of 71-1/2 grains of black powder compressed into a pellet. 303 round eventually settled upon had a drawn brass case andĢ15-grain round nose, cupro-nickel-jacketed bullet. Was officially accepted into British service. Rubin round), and in December of that year the first Lee magazine rifle Eduard Rubin caused the plan to be scrapped andįor experiments to be conducted with the smaller bore.įinally in 1888, prototype Less, fitted with barrels featuring the 303-caliber cartridgeĭesigned by Swiss Col. Service caliber (Mk IV Martini-Henrys originally were slated to beĬhambered for this round), the efficiency of a. Though the British had been considering adopting. Another strong contender was the Lee-Burton which employed aĬurious hopper-style "Bethel-Burton" magazine mated to the Serious trials continued throughout the 1880s with modified With Martini-Henry barrels, successfully eliminated several and domestic "Gatling" varsions of the British service round, and fitted
Versions of the Lee, chambered for drawn brass.
Soon gained the attention of the British authorities, and in 1980, Perfect it, and a bolt-action repeater of his invention was tested byīoth the United States Army and Navy. Though he didn't actually conceive the box magazine, Lee did Watchmaking, but maintained more than an abiding interest in firearms.Įventually, Lee moved to Wisconsin and took up gun designing full time. He initially followed his father's occupation of Had come from Scotland to settle in Canada in 1835 when James was 4 James Paris Lee was a naturalized American citizen whose parents Martini-Henry, the Lee had its design antecedents in the United States. Like two earlier general issue rifles, the Snider and the Lee-Enfields, and their extensive useage, makes the history of this armĪt least as exciting as that of Mausers or Springfields. 4s of the two world wars, but the many models of The casual firearms enthusiast is certainly familiar with the famed World's greatest bolt-action battle rifle. Its long service record speaks for itself. Successful an arm to need this sort of lurid introduction. The piece with some jingoistic Kiplingesque quote about Pathans orįuzzy-Wuzzies taking Tommy Atkins' bullets in various parts of It seems about mandatory, when writing about British arms, to start
303 Lee-Enfield Britain's classic battle rifle.
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