Teddy Roosevelt's Favorite Weapon

[Josh Beckett]

Extremely interesting. Were these still used when the 1903 was introduced?

[Rich Pouncey]

Beautiful! Thank you for posting the photos!

Notice the "Nickel Steel" stamped in the barrel? IIRC in the late 1800's Krupp Steel in Germany was attempting to gain access to the American steel market, and licensed Winchester to use its (Krupp's) newly developed super tough steel, nickel steel! Don't know how long Winchester used the license, but my Model 12 made in 1921 has a nickel steel barrel.

[Johnnie]

I know what you mean about the Finnish ammo. It was plentiful and cheap back then, and I shot tons of it through my Moisin-Nagant. Even threw the boxes away as trash. Did the same with original German 7.92mm. Luckily I kept the stripper clips for both. Ah, the good old days. If I had only known then..........!

Johnnie

I too had one of the Russian 1895 muskets in 7.62x54r and traded it 35 years ago... Back then there not a lot of Russian ammo on the market had to shoot it with some old Finnish VPT ammo and still have one of the Finnish triangular boxes of ammo around here some where which now is a desireable collector item in it's own right...BILL