Winchester 1895 [Russian Contract] to 500yds: Practical Accuracy with the “Russian Cowboy“

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: The Winchester Model 1895 was John Moses Browning’s last iteration of lever-action rifles that accommodated a full-power cartridge without using a tube-fed magazines. Of all nations in WW1, the Russian Empire was mainly the one attributed to widely using the lever action rifle in a modern conflict by chambering the 1895 in , a respectable service cartridge for accuracy and distance shooting. Because of this, the Russian Contract 1895 has become the single example of military employment of a lever action in a sea of bolt action rifles chambered in full-powered service loads... but should we have adapted lever action rifles all along? Could lever actions have tipped the scale of modern combat? We investigate. We’d like to thank C&Rsenal for sharing their footage with us and making excellent episodes on the Russian Contract 1895 and S&W no.3. We encourage you to lo