This necessitated the design of a cartridge box or clip-type magazine (the Model 1895 became the first Winchester lever-action to feature a box magazine). Further compounding the issue, the rifle’s traditional lever-action tubular magazine forbid the use of newer cartridges with pointed bullets. This dictated a receiver with side ejection, with the ejection port sealed off with the action shut to keep dirt and foreign objects from entering the mechanism. Additionally, intended as a sporting gun, Winchester considered adding a scope mounting option. Winchester’s design team reasoned that the strength of a bolt-action mechanism in a lever-action rifle would require a rotating front-locking bolt to withstand the higher pressures of newer cartridges, and this design would also call for a solid breech similar to that used on the Savage Model 99, which would eliminate the possibility of gas blowback into the shooters eyes should a cartridge case fail. What Winchester needed was a modern lever-action combining the best attributes of both. But they unfortunately lacked the strength and accuracy of modern bolt-action rifles. The legendary Winchester lever-actions remained widely known for their speed of firing.
Badly outdated by the early ’40s, Winchester discontinued the model in 1931. This strong, box-magazine fed rifle fired the wonderful, pointed. At the time, the John Browning-designed Model 1895 stood as the only Winchester chambering a high-velocity, flat-shooting cartridge. In the early 1940s Winchester figured that, given America’s love affair with the lever-action, and the growing popularity of more accurate bolt-action models, the time had come to modernize its venerable 19th century models.
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