Remington-Lee 1899 Magazine Rifle 405 win in Athens, Ohio For Sale

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Remington-Lee xxxx Magazine Rifle one of a kind Beautify restocked and restored some 25 years back and rebored to 405 Winchester this last year. LOOK at ALL the pictures. ask questions 405 was an original caliber for this rifle as a sporting gun. James Paris Lee is one of the less recognized prolific arms designers in American history, between the Lee straight pull rifle adopted by the US Navy and the British Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield rifles. One of his less successful designs (commercially speaking) was the modernization and adaptation of the Mxxxx Lee Navy rifle (in .45-70) into a .30-40 Government (aka .30-40 Krag) caliber. The rifle was intended for military service, but not adopted ? ultimately less than xxxx were built for the commercial market. Lee realized that successful modern rifle designs of his day would need to be well suited for the high velocity smokeless powder cartridges that were on the horizon, and he changed the Remington-Lee design to this end. Where the Mxxxx rifle was rear locking, the updated xxxx version used the standard Lee rear and safety lugs but also had two locking lugs on the bolt head. The xxxx Remington-Lee used a 5-round single stack magazine, and had no manual safety. Instead, the cocking piece was designed to be easily gripped and had a half-cock notch. Safe carry was intended to be achieved by placing the rifle in half-cock. In addition to being expensive to manufacture (thanks to the multiple sets of locking lugs, which would requires some precision machining), the main design flaw of the rifle was a lack of a recoil lug on the receiver. The force of recoil was put only the thin wood around the magazine and wrist, and stocks were susceptible to cracking with extended use.We know that the past isn't always an indicator of the future, but we've prided ourselves on being a business that customers enjoy returning to, be it via the internet or walking through our doors. That is something we pride ourselves on and it is something we only want to improve upon as we move forward.
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