Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "Russian Winchester 1895" video.

  1. One complaint about this lever action was - soldiers get too exposed in prone position when cycling and, especially, when reloading this rifle from a clip, they often got shot in a shoulder or even in a head, sure, that might be just a training issue. Yet guys loved it or at least there was some kind of "cool" about it, as far as I can tell from literature, since one of them, Aleksands Grins, wrote a book "Dvēseļu putenis" (snowstorm of souls) that is (or at least was in my time) a must read in Latvian secondary schools. One point where it is better than Russian design - one can't easily lose Winchester's bolt as it is possible with Mosin's rifle. However M1895 seem to be less sturdy, there may be some left here and there, but unlike bolt action rifles that still work, 1895 found in Russia these days are mostly in terrible shape.
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  2. ***** Lack of appropriate training, I suppose.
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  3. Salpeteroxid Maybe, but loading a gun from a stripper clip while holding it sideways while trying to prevent the stripper clip falling off might be quite a pain in the butt.
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  4. Salpeteroxid Who cares, that was a full century ago.
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  5. Salpeteroxid Right now we are having fun switching from Lats to Euro, you can actually pay for goods in any of the two currencies for this and the next week, naturally the result is slower service, especially because people are getting rid of all the small coins they still got.  8D
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