{"id":5688,"date":"2016-02-02T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/02\/russian-winchester-1895-in-7-62x54r\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:32:16","slug":"russian-winchester-1895-in-7-62x54r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/02\/russian-winchester-1895-in-7-62x54r\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Winchester 1895 in 7.62x54R"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nL9JKassTD4?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sold for $2,588.<\/p>\n<p>The Winchester 1895 was the last of Winchester&#8217;s lever-action rifles, and has an interesting place in a couple different parts of world history. On the one hand, the 1895 in .405 Winchester caliber is known as Theodore Roosevelt&#8217;s &#8220;Big Medicine&#8221; for safari hunting. On another, it was the object of the largest military lever-action purchase ever, made by the Russian Czar during World War I.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian military was woefully under-equipped at the outset of WWI, and needed rifles wherever it could find them. While waiting for a contract with Remington (and later New England Westinghouse) to provide Mosin-Nagant rifles, the Czar&#8217;s military ordered 300,000 model 1895s from Winchester. These rifles were purportedly going to be available immediately form Winchester&#8217;s existing production line, although in reality it took several months before deliveries began, The rifles were modified by Winchester to accept standard Mosin-Nagant stripper clips, and were chambered for the 7.62x54R cartridge.<\/p>\n<p>They saw heavy combat use, and reportedly performed well, despite the lever action system having some fundamental inferiorities compared to bolt action rifles in a military context. What made them feasible was the action designed specifically for full-power smokeless rifle ammunition and the box magazine design which avoided the potential problems of spitzer cartridges in a tube magazine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold for $2,588. The Winchester 1895 was the last of Winchester&#8217;s lever-action rifles, and has an interesting place in a couple different parts of world history. On the one hand, the 1895 in .405 Winchester caliber is known as Theodore Roosevelt&#8217;s &#8220;Big Medicine&#8221; for safari hunting. On another, it was the object of the largest&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/02\/russian-winchester-1895-in-7-62x54r\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian Winchester 1895 in 7.62x54R<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15426,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions\/15426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}