Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "Russian Winchester 1895 in 7.62x54R" video.

  1. Greeting from Latvia! This model of Winchester made it into our literature classics, I don't know, how it is now, but when I went to secondary school one of the must read books were "Dvēseļu putenis" (Blizzard of Souls)written by Aleksandrs Grīns, who himself served in Latvian Riflemen units first under Russian Empire and later as part of army of independent Latvia. In the novel Winchester 1895 was used by the father of the main protagonist sort of as a marksman rifle, and it's stock got covered with more and more markings for each German killed. It was a good rifle, however there is a common complain about lever action rifle - when you are in prone position in a field under machineguns fire, it's quite easy to get shot in the right shoulder due to the way how one moves while reloading, something like this doesn't happen with bolt action rifles. Even worse, if one kept the rifle vertically while loading from a stripper clip, lever is sticking down making rifle noticeably higher, so if that man wanted to check what he is doing and rose his head up... better to be shot in a shoulder than let Germans to score a headshot. P.S. Since WWI there are such grim/cool placenames in Latvia as Nāves sala (the island of Death) and Ložmetējkalns (the Machinegun hill).
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