The Lee turning bolt design was considered to be a good one, but marred by its magazine system, which the Small Arms Board found to be problematic. Luger's submission had only one major disadvantage: it failed to meet government specifications, having been chambered in a non-standard rimless 6mm cartridge. The Durst prototype fractured the receiver in firing and was withdrawn from the test, while the Luger Rifle performed excellently. In a second set of trials the Model 1893/94 Luger 6-mm Rifle and the Durst rifle were also considered, along with a Lee turning-bolt design. In the first set of service trials, the naval small arms board tested several submissions, including the Van Patten, Daudeteau, Briggs-Kneeland, Miles, the Russell-Livermore Magazine Rifle, five Remington turnbolt designs (all with side-mounted magazines), and the Lee straight-pull. The rifle action was required to withstand the firing of five overpressure (proof) cartridges with a chamber pressure of 60,000 psi (410 MPa). Both the ammunition and rifle barrels were supplied by the government the barrels, made of 4.5 per cent nickel steel, used Metford-pattern rifling with a rifling twist of one turn in 6.5 inches, and were supplied unchambered with the receiver thread uncut. Ball Cartridge, 6mm was the only cartridge permitted for rifles tested before the Naval Small Arms Board. Per the terms of the Notice to Inventors, the new government-designed 6mm U.S.N a.k.a. On Auga naval test board was convened at the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport, Rhode Island to test submitted magazine rifles in the new 6mm Navy government chambering.
naval authorities decided to leapfrog developments by adopting a semi-rimless cartridge in 6-mm caliber, with a case capable of holding a heavy charge of smokeless powder. As the military forces began adopting smaller and smaller caliber rifles with higher velocity cartridges, U.S. Naval authorities decided that the new cartridge should be adaptable to both rifles and machine guns. Navy desired to adopt a modern small-bore, smokeless powder rifle in keeping with other first-line naval powers. Production history and development īy 1894, the U.S.
or Lee Navy Cartridge was also used in the navy version of the Colt–Browning Model 1895 machinegun. caliber) cartridge, which used an early smokeless powder, was semi-rimless, and fired a 135-grain (later 112-grain) jacketed bullet. The Navy's official designation for the Lee Straight-Pull rifle was the " Lee Rifle, Model of 1895, caliber 6-mm" but the weapon is also largely known by other names, such as: Navy and Marine Corps in 1895 as a first-line infantry rifle. The Lee Model 1895 was a straight-pull, cam-action magazine rifle adopted in limited numbers by the U.S. 549 m (600 yd) individual target, 915 m (1,000 yd) massed targetĥ-round en bloc clip, internal box magazineīlade front, U-notch rear, adjustable for windage/elevation
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