Rifle Winchester Model 1895 is a lever-cocking repeating rifle designed and manufactured by Winchester in 1895. Unlike previous models, the rifle was purposefully created to use powerful hunting and military-style cartridges.

TACTICAL AND TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS RIFLES WINCHESTER MODEL 1895
Manufacturer:	Winchester Repeating Arms Company
Cartridge:
Caliber:	7.62 mm
Weight without cartridges:	4.1 kg
Weight with cartridges:	n/a
Length:	1160 mm
Barrel length:	712 mm
Number of rifling in the barrel:	n/a
Trigger mechanism (trigger):	Kurkovy
Operating principle:	Manual reloading with Henry brace
Fuse:	n/a
Aim:	Front sight and sector sight
Effective range:	600 m
Sighting range:	1800 m
Initial bullet speed:	n/a
Type of ammunition:	Integral magazine loaded with five-round clips
Number of cartridges:	5
Years of production:	1915–1917

History of creation and production

The Winchester M1895 would have remained an experimental model if not for the shortage small arms in the Russian army at the beginning of the First World War, which forced the tsarist government to buy everything that could shoot around the world. Firm Winchester Repeating Arms Company agreed to remake the rifle for the Russian cartridge 7.62×54 mm R, and until 1917 shipped about 300 thousand of these rifles to Russia, which amounted to about 70% of all rifles of this model produced.

For these rifles, the shape of the magazine was changed, and special guides appeared on the receiver, which made it possible to quickly load the magazine with cartridges from a standard clip from a Mosin rifle mod. 1891. In addition, rifles made for Russia had an extended barrel with a bayonet mount. The new barrel length required lengthening the fore-end.

M1895 rifles mainly entered service with units of the Russian Army located in Finland and the Baltic states (especially many M1895s went to Latvian riflemen).

At first, Russian soldiers liked the Winchesters. Dissatisfaction was expressed only in the fact that it was inconvenient to move the lever when shooting from a prone position - it kept touching the ground. But already in the coming winter it was discovered that the Winchester M1895 refused to work even in 10-degree frost - due to the minimum tolerances, the mechanism froze.

M1895 of the Russian type were produced until 1936. The total circulation was 426 thousand pieces. The last warehouse remains were sent to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease in 1942, but they were hardly used at the front, but were transferred to the paramilitary guards, from which even the Berdanki were removed in the fall of 1941, and to commercial hunters.

In other armies, the M1895 was seen very limitedly. Thus, the US Army ordered about 10 thousand M1895 caliber .30-40 Krag during the Spanish-American War, but the war ended faster than the first batch of rifles arrived. One hundred of these rifles were issued to the 33rd Volunteer Infantry Regiment for testing during the Philippine-American War (a December 25, 1899 report on these tests emphasized that the .30/40 Krag cartridge was excellent for military use). The remaining 9,900 rifles were sold to the M. Harley Company, almost all of them shipped to Cuba in 1906. Later, some rifles from this batch ended up in Mexico, where they were very popular among the Pancho Villa rebels.

Design and principle of operation

The Winchester M1895 has a bolt-action action, operated by a Henry brace. This type of bolt made it the fastest-firing repeating rifle of its time. The shutter is locked by a wedge that moves vertically in the grooves inside

Although the Lord said: “Thou shalt not kill,” people have killed at all times, and they were also proud of the effective murder weapons created in their country.

In Russia, these were a three-line rifle and a Kalashnikov assault rifle, but among the Americans, perhaps the most famous weapon was the Oliver Winchester carbine, the famous “yellow guy,” or “yellow guy.” Many (and quite rightly!) consider it “the weapon that conquered the Wild West.” Yes, and the Russian troops suffered from him, read to the end and you will find out under what circumstances the Russian army suffered from his murderous fire.

Where did it begin?
However, one should not think that the hard drive came into existence just like that. No, this weapon had many predecessors and was improved rather slowly. First, the Hunt Repeater gun (1849) appeared; this model had two levers under the barrel: one for feeding cartridges, and the other for capsules, which was, of course, very inconvenient. But then there was an engineer, Lewis Jennings, who liked something about the Repeater gun, and he made his own from it - with an under-barrel magazine and a bolt controlled by a lever. Another engineer, Benjamin Tyler Henry, was assigned to create a prototype for the Robbins and Lawrence company, and it was he who finalized the rifle.
As for Mr. Oliver Winchester himself, at first he was generally engaged in the production of... men's shirts at his own factory in New Haven.

In 1850, Winchester decided to invest money in the newly founded Volcanic Rapping Ams company, which produced the same name self-loading rifles. Unfortunately, they had a drawback - a completely extravagant cartridge, which was a bullet with a powder charge inside. At the same time, he did not have enough strength; it was inconvenient to reload with the help of a bracket.

"Henry repeating rifle, model 1860"

By 1856, Winchester became the largest of the firm's co-owners, after which the company was renamed New Haven Ams, after the city of New Haven, Connecticut, where it was located, and then hired engineer Benjamin Henry, who became chief designer and director. new enterprise. At first they continued to produce the unsuccessful Volcanics, but in 1860 Henry finally abandoned the old cartridge and made the gun chambered for a cartridge with a metal sleeve and a magazine under the barrel that could hold as many as 15 rounds. These are the guns that have now begun to be produced. Loading them, however, was inconvenient, and the magazine was difficult, since it had to be filled with cartridges from the muzzle. However, the loaded weapon developed an amazing rate of fire - 25 rounds per minute! It was very expensive - 50 dollars (the size of a three-month salary for a soldier in the northern army), but as soon as the war between the North and South began, people, despite the price, began to buy it, and then they went on to massive purchases of “Henry rifle, model I860” and the Northern States government.
"The Royal Innovation" by Nelson King
While the Civil War was going on, Winchester produced Henry's rifles without any changes, and Henry himself apparently believed that he had achieved perfection. However, then the development of the weapons market required eliminating the main drawback of the rifle, which was the difficulty of loading. This was eliminated by Nelson King, who proposed to install a window on the right side of the bolt box with a spring-loaded lid, through which the magazine could be filled from the breech, and not from the muzzle. The cartridges were pushed into the magazine, bullets forward, while the coil spring in it was compressed. In 1866, Winchester, appreciating King's development, purchased from him a patent for this improvement, called the “Royal Innovation.” At the same time, Oliver renamed the company itself, which became known as Winchester Repitingams.

Apparently, not forgiving Winchester for improving his gun, Henry left the company that same year, and the new model was now called “Winchester, model 1866”, without any mention of Henry’s name.

"Yellow Guy" begins...
Because the Winchester had a brass receiver, it was nicknamed the “yellow guy,” or “yellow guy.” The magazine held from 13 to 15 rounds, depending on the length of the barrel and magazine. The new gun turned out to be very convenient for anyone who had to shoot from a horse, which is why many considered the Winchester the best cavalry carbine of its time. True, due to the not very strong cartridge, the gun’s firing range was short, but it had very accurate combat at short distances, and its lead bullet of 11.18 millimeter caliber was sufficient lethal force. A luxury hard drive model 1866 was also produced, decorated with engraving and the owner’s monogram.

And he wins!
In 1873, the hard drive was improved again. A 15-round model with a bayonet began to be produced for the army, and two models - 11 and 13 rounds - were offered as a carbine and sporting weapon. The caliber of the Winchester was unified with the caliber of the Colt Peacemaker revolver (also known as the Colt Peacemaker), which made it easier to supply it with ammunition. The range reached up to a thousand steps. Later, the number of produced hard drive models of different calibers and for different cartridges reached 12, which is why this rifle became widespread outside the United States.
However, the army did not like the new weapon, because they were afraid of an increase in ammunition consumption. The cavalry was armed with single-shot Sharp and Springfield carbines, and it was for this reason that in 1876, near the Little Bighorn River, Montana, General Custer's detachment was defeated by the Indians. After all, as excavations at the battle site showed, those who had Henry and Winchester rifles, and the American aborigines simply suppressed the resistance of Custer’s soldiers with their fire!
And finally, thanks to the Winchesters, which were armed with the Turkish cavalry during the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878, the Turks managed to repel the superior forces of the Russian army, which stormed Plevna on July 30, 1877. Then the Turkish horsemen gave the Winchesters to the infantrymen, and they had 600 rounds of ammunition each. As a result, despite all their courage, our soldiers were unable to resist the wall of fire opened on our troops by the Turkish army. On this day, as well as during the assault on September 11, the total Russian losses amounted to 30 thousand people, almost exclusively thanks to the Winchesters.
Competitors
and followers
Winchesters sold so well that rifles with a lever-controlled bolt and an under-barrel magazine began to appear literally one after another. Some were better in some ways, others were just more original; there was enough space on the market for everyone. The Marlin, for example, ejected the spent cartridge case to the right and was therefore considered more convenient than the hard drive, which had serious competition. Borges' carbine differed only in the shape of the lever, but Bollard's bolt moved using gears and racks, which ensured greater smooth operation of the mechanism. Even the Colt company was seduced by the under-barrel magazine - its guns used a sliding forend, which is why their rate of fire surpassed lever systems. As for the Winchester company, it continued to improve its legendary rifle and produced the 1886, 1894 and 1895 models. The latter was designed for a powerful rifle cartridge and no longer had an under-barrel, but a middle magazine, like our “three-line” one. Interestingly, during the First World War, the latest model of hard drive in large quantities supplied to Russia, where it, however, was not successful. Lying down is not very convenient to operate the lever, and in addition, before reloading, the hard drive had to cock the hammer, which caused the rate of fire to decrease.
Be that as it may, hard drives with an under-barrel magazine are being produced even now, which is the best evidence of their perfection. And although the name of the real creator of this weapon - Benjamin Tyler Henry - has now been forgotten by many, it cannot be said that Oliver Winchester has nothing to do with the rifle. After all, he also put a lot of effort into improving the carbine, if only by buying the necessary patents and attracting talented specialists to the work.

Winchester shotguns, which served sheriffs and movie stars well, are gradually fading into history and ceasing to exist.

The city of New Haven closed the American arms factory producing this type of weapon. Along with its existence, the 140-year history of the production of famous guns also ended. During the Second World War, 19 thousand people worked at this enterprise, but in recent years less than 200 people have worked there. Outdated models, including the famous Winchester 1894, will be disposed of. Now the only rifles bearing the Winchester mark will be modern, improved models produced in Belgium, Japan and Portugal.
The plant is being sold, most likely to Smith & Wesson. And before it was owned by Winchester, Volcanic, and the same Smith... The current owner (or already former) is FN, i.e. Belgians. The production of such Winchester models as 1300, 70 and 94 is being discontinued. Although it is possible, they will remain in production, only with new owners under different designations. So, I think there will be another 1300th... But for now the plant seems to have been closed.....

In conclusion, a video of the hard drive in action.

Although the Lord said: “Thou shalt not kill,” people have killed at all times, and they were also proud of the effective murder weapons created in their country. In Russia, these were a three-line rifle and a Kalashnikov assault rifle, but among the Americans, perhaps the most famous weapon was the Oliver Winchester carbine, the famous “yellow guy,” or “yellow guy.” Many (and quite rightly!) consider it “the weapon that conquered the Wild West.” Yes, and the Russian troops suffered from him, read to the end and you will find out under what circumstances the Russian army suffered from his murderous fire. Where did it begin? However, don’t think that the hard drive is straight...

Review

Winchester M1895

American rifle for the Russian army

In the first half of the 19th century, the inventor lived in New York Walter Hunt. During his 62-year life, he invented a pen, a machine for making nails, an electric doorbell, and even a safety pin, which we call a safety pin. Your inventions Hunt He immediately patented it, but then sold it to industrialists and entrepreneurs for mere pennies. Having sold the invention, he lost the right to call it by his own name, and therefore today we know his brainchildren under other people's names.
One of these brainchildren is the type of rifle called today Winchester.
Its history began with the fact that in 1848 Hunt invented the so-called rocket bullet - a hole was drilled in the back of an ordinary oblong lead bullet into which a powder charge was placed. This charge burned out long before the bullet left the barrel, and in ballistics it was no different from those fired in the traditional way. However, due to the small powder charge, the muzzle energy of the bullet was small, and to compensate for the lack of lethality Hunt decided on the rate of fire, to increase which he created an under-barrel magazine. This store contained ten bullets with a microcharge in the tail section, one after another.

Invented Hantom the rifle had an original device in the form of a lever mechanism. When the rearmost of the bullets, under the action of the magazine spring, rested on the feeder, the lever had to be moved forward, and it brought the feeder with the cartridge to the level of the chamber. At the same time, the hammer was cocked. Then, when the lever was pulled back, the cartridge was driven into the chamber, and when the trigger was pressed, the trigger broke off the sear and hit the firing pin hidden in the bolt, which in turn broke the primer.
As in all previous cases, Hunt sold the patent dated August 10, 1848 to one Lewis Jennings. The one who paid Hantu 15 dollars, began to improve the invention and in 1852 sold the improved model to the clerk of the Robbins & Lawrence Co. gun store Benjamin Tyler Henry. He attracted investors and began selling the gun under the name Henry rifle, but sales were not very successful, and investors soon pulled their shares out of the business. Left with beans, Henry sold the invention and technology Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson. They decided to produce pistols rather than rifles.

Jennings rifle

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olcanic

The pistol, called , began to be produced at the Smith and Wesson plant, called Volcanic Repeating Arms. However, this pistol was also a failure - it could not withstand the competition with Colt revolvers. Then the partners, without thinking twice, created a new company Smith & Wesson and successfully began producing revolvers. The company Volcanic purchased Oliver Fisher Winchester. In 1860 he found Benjamin Henry and having hired him for service, gave the rifle a ms lever action new life. Firstly, Henry adapted a 44-caliber metal cartridge to the rifle.

Henry rifle mod. 1860

These cartridges, with a 23 mm case length, were more of a revolver than a rifle. Moreover, these cartridges were also used by the company Smith & Wesson for her revolvers. But the short length made it possible to place 15 such cartridges in the under-barrel magazine (+1 on the feeder), which was not allowed by the drum of any revolver, and since revolvers were then only single action, and the hammer had to be cocked before each shot, then Henry rifle beat the revolver in the rate of fire, firing an average of 28 bullets per minute.
Patron Henry, on the bottom of which there was an “N” - the first letter of his last name, contained 1.6 g of black powder, which accelerated a 13-gram bullet in a 736.6 mm barrel to a speed of 343 m/s. This was enough to confidently hit targets at a distance of one hundred yards (91.44 m).
The American Civil War added to the matter Winchester–Henry larger scope. Henry rifle Both southerners and northerners bought it. In the south, it was even armed with the personal security squadron of the local President Davis.
In 1866, a new model of rifle appeared, which no longer had a surname on it. Henry. From then on, all lever action rifles, even those manufactured by other companies, would be called Winchesters.
One of these Winchesters – Winchester M1895 ended up in service with the Russian army.

Winchester model 1873, which was in service with the Turks during the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-78.

The commercial version of the 1873 Winchester was produced until 1919.

Starting with the 1885 model, the Winchester designer became John Moses Browning. In 1894, Browning created a carbine chambered for .30-30 , the 1.95-gram charge of which gave the 7.15-gram bullet an initial speed of 818 m/s when fired from a 508-mm barrel. This was the first hunting weapon, using smokeless powder cartridges. The production of the model continued for more than a hundred years and ended only in 2006. The commercial success of the 1894 model gave rise to Browning the desire to create a full-fledged military model with a middle magazine.

Winchester Model 1894
The rifle was created to use the .30-40 Krag cartridge, used in Springfield in 1892, but since the latter was already in service, the military abandoned the 1895 Winchester.
Winchester Model 1895 it would have remained an experimental model if the shortage of weapons in the Russian army in the first years of the First World War had not forced our government to buy everything that could shoot around the world.
Firm Winchester Repeating Arms Company agreed to remake the rifle for the Russian cartridge, and until 1917 shipped 294 thousand of these rifles to Russia.

Winchester Model 1895
Given that Winchester 1895 was basically designed like contemporary repeating rifles, it retained its main feature - a lever action. This type of bolt made it the fastest-firing repeating rifle. It was loaded with Russian cartridges using a Russian clip, for the insertion of which two strips were provided.

1 – trunk. 2 – front sight. 3 – receiver. 4 – shutter. 5 – store. 6 – strips for inserting the clip. 6a – shutter lever. 7 – butt. 7a – bolt handle. 9 – sighting block. 10 – aiming frame. 12 – feeder. 13 – wedge. 14 – ejector. 15 – reflector. 16 – reflector spring. 18 – drummer. 19 – fuse. 24 – trigger. 26 – trigger. 27 – mainspring. 29 – whispered. 30 – the spring whispered. 33 – lever. 34 – tray. 35 – feeder spring. 36 – receiver lining. 37 and 38 – stock rings.

Gate Winchester did not have combat ledges - a wedge was used to lock it, on which the bolt rested during the shot with the surface of the ledge. When the handle bracket was raised to the neck of the stock, the hinges of its cheeks, resting against the protrusion of the bolt, sent it forward. During this movement, the bolt met the next cartridge on its way and sent it from the magazine into the chamber. When the bolt came to the forward position, the lever came into contact with the wedge, and as the handle was pressed against the neck of the stock, it occupied the highest position. At the same time, its head part went under the supporting surfaces of the bolt and locked it. At the same time, the wedge cylinder released the firing pin from the safety device, the hook of the lever closed the wedge, and the latch of the lever jumped over the protrusion of the bracket.

Trigger mechanism Winchester was designed in the same way as early rifles Hanta. When the trigger was pressed, he used his head to disengage the sear of the trigger pawl with the hammer cocked. The trigger, under the action of the mainspring, rotated on its axis and the head hit the firing pin, which broke the primer.
When the handle was pulled down forward, its bracket was released from the latch hook. The lever removed the wedge from the bolt stem support sockets. As the handle was lowered, the hinges of its cheeks, acting on the bolt, pulled it back. The ejector hook carried the spent cartridge case along with it, and as soon as its barrel emerged from under the receiver jumper, the cartridge case was ejected from the receiver under the action of a spring reflector.
When the bolt moved to its rearmost position, its rear cut came into contact with the hammer head and forced the hammer to rotate until it was cocked.
When the wedge was lowered, its cylinder released the fuse, and the latter, under the action of its spring, returned to its original position.

At first Winchester Russian soldiers liked it. Dissatisfaction was expressed only in the fact that it was inconvenient to move the lever when shooting from a prone position - it kept touching the ground. But already in the coming winter, it was discovered that the Winchester M1895 refused to work even in 10-degree frost - due to the minimum tolerances, the mechanism froze. That is why in 1916, Winchesters began to be removed from the weapons of rifle regiments and replaced them Arisakami

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Winchester s Russian model were produced until 1936. The total circulation was 426 thousand pieces. The last warehouse remains were sent to us under Lend-Lease in 1942, but they were hardly used at the front, but were transferred to the paramilitary guards, from which they were even removed in the fall of 1941, and to commercial hunters.

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Gunpowder weight - 5.07 g (for dragoon, Cossack and carbine - 4.26 g). Bullet mass - 24.016 g. Initial speed of an infantry rifle - 437 m/s. The dragoon and Cossack ones have 386 m/s. The carbine has 362 m/s.

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Winchester is an American brand of weapons that is very popular all over the world. Repeating shotguns became widespread on the US civilian market in the late 19th century due to their rate of fire and ease of use. For a long time, production was carried out by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, but in 2006 the trademark was transferred to the Browning Arms Company, which manufactures rifles, hunting and sporting shotguns, as well as products for law enforcement agencies. The company began to produce new models - developments based on legendary guns. So a new semi-automatic gun appeared on the market Winchester Super x3 is an updated version of Winchester Super x2, created on the basis of the famous Browning Gold model.

The changes affected the appearance of the gun, its aesthetics, which significantly transformed its individuality. In recent years, the gas-operated semi-automatic Winchester Super x3 has occupied a strong position among hunters and people passionate about sports shooting. The model quickly gained popularity, as the semi-automatic looks great, fits comfortably in the hand, and shoots effectively. Moreover, it has an attractive price compared to its competitors.

Winchester Super x3 is a smoothbore shotgun that has a wide range of models for hunting and sport shooting. This is a balanced and reliable 12-gauge model, which has a large number of operational capabilities, has a low weight of up to 3.4 kg and a barrel length of 660 and 711 mm. Its lightness is ensured by the fact that the under-barrel magazine tube in combination with the receiver is made of light alloy metal.

Super X3 Waterfowl Sporting

The Super x3 features a polished checkered stock, an adjustable comb, and a nickel-plated bolt, retainer, rod, and cocking handle. The matte shade of the block and barrel harmonizes well with the wood. The stock is made of synthetic material and has a special anti-slip coating that provides reliable grip, so the semi-automatic gun is comfortable to use anywhere and in difficult weather conditions. The stock design itself is equipped with adjustable shims that make it easy to adjust the hard drive to the shooter’s individual parameters. The Pachmayr Decelerator is a recoil pad that is specifically designed to reduce recoil during firing. This allows you to keep the weapon on the aiming line during intense shooting.

Winchester sx3 was designed for hunting large migratory birds. It has a high rate of fire, and the reload speed allows you to fire up to 12 shots in 1,442 s (this is Patrick Flanigan's record, set in April 2007). The magazine capacity is 4+1 rounds. The gun works with cartridges having different charge powers. A special seat is provided on part of the stock for optical devices.

The Winchester sx3 is sold in a hard plastic case with the Winchester logo on it.

Super X3 in a case

Peculiarities

The rate of fire guaranteed by the manufacturer is 5 shots in 0.49 s. This semi-automatic weapon is the fastest in the world. A special feature of the Winchester Super X3 is its automatic mechanism and distinctive barrel drilling.

Automation features
Winchester sx3 has a gas exhaust automation system. The principle of its operation is that the gas cylinder is equipped with a piston with a built-in active valve. It is necessary in order to regulate the powder gases that come from the holes in the barrel at the moment of firing. When the pressure in the gas cylinder exceeds the permissible threshold, a spring located in the piston releases excess gas. They are discharged through exhaust ports located between the fore-end and the barrel.

Powder gases entering the gas chamber act on the piston and a plastic collar with a rod attached to it, due to which the action occurs on the bolt. Relieving excess pressure allows you to use cartridges of different power, reduce recoil during a shot and increase accuracy. The "active valve system" automatically adjusts to the projectile used. The piston has a short stroke, so the automation operates very smoothly and softly, without losing speed.

SX3 Composite Sporting

Barrel Features
Back-Bored technology is used to drill the barrel bore. The barrels are manufactured with an increased bore diameter of up to 18.8 mm, due to which the friction of the shot on the bore walls is reduced and the shot speed is significantly increased. The shot itself is practically not deformed during movement in the barrel and retains its aerodynamic characteristics and ballistic qualities. It is much easier for the shooter to calculate the exact hit of the bullet on the target, since deviations and errors are reduced to a minimum.

Design

The stock is made of synthetic material and treated with a special Dura-touch coating that prevents slipping. The stock and fore-end have a refined shape, which increases maneuverability when handling a semi-automatic weapon. The hard drive barrel has a chrome-plated bore, is made of nickel-plated steel, and is top coated with Perma-cote, which provides increased resistance to external influence. The barrel is equipped with an aiming rib designed for mounting optics and a collimator. The gun comes with 5 muzzle tubes.

Winchester SX3 design

The box has special holes for installing optical mounts. Models are available with 76 and 89 mm chambers.

For the manufacture of the receiver, ergal is used - an aluminum alloy that weighs 10% less than conventional weapon steel.

The magazine has a quick loading system, for this reason it does not have a magazine cut-off. The double-sided safety is located at the base of the trigger guard. Its design is convenient, it can be manipulated even with gloves, and foreign objects cannot get under the button. The trigger is moved back and has a short stroke. The trigger force is 2500 g. The bolt design does not have a cartridge limiter. The removable trigger mechanism makes cleaning the weapon easier.

The Winchester sx3 kit is equipped with 2 replacement Sporting clays gas pistons. Each weighs 62 g. They have different markings and are designed to fire cartridges with different weights.

The Winchester Super X3 is produced as both a hunting and sporting rifle. Depending on the purpose, the designs have some differences. Hunting rifles come with camouflage-colored stocks and special gaskets for adjustment. At the guns for clay pigeon shooting The chokes are unscrewed manually, and in hunting models using a key. Sports models (Winchester Super x3 sporting) have a red receiver.

Advantages and disadvantages

Winchester Super X3 has a lot of advantages, such as:

• high rate of fire;
• use of ammunition of any power (shot load from 24 to 56 g);
• light weight weapons;
• aesthetically pleasing appearance;
• a wide range of models for hunting and clay pigeon shooting;
• the ability to adjust the bend and length of the butt using special inserts;
• soft recoil during firing;
• high hit accuracy, uniform shot distribution;
• maneuverability and versatility;
• flawless operation of automation;
• ease of maintenance.

Among the disadvantages, it should be noted the likelihood of scratches on the forend. Without proper care, severe contamination forms on the gas outlet mechanism. Malfunctions may also occur when working with ultra-short sporting bullets.

Specifications

• The gun has a caliber of 12/76 mm
• Barrel length 660 / 711 mm
• Gun weight without cartridges 3.2 / 3.4 kg
• Magazine capacity is 4+1 rounds
• Magazine type – under-barrel tubular
• Weapon reloading - gas vent
• Barrel type - smooth or rifled

Winchester X3 Long Beard

Conclusion

The Winchester Super X3 is a gun that stands out from its competitors from other gun companies. It has a lower cost compared to Italian samples, but is not inferior to them in its technical specifications. This great option for hunting and sport shooting. The gun is different high quality materials, excellent appearance, it fits comfortably in the hand and is light in weight. The process of shooting and hunting gives the owner only positive emotions; the gun satisfies all operational and aesthetic requirements. The speed of the shot and its accuracy, the maneuverability and adaptability of the gun, the ability to operate in any conditions - these are the main advantages of the Winchester sx3 and the reason for choosing it for hunting and clay pigeon shooting.

Disassembly and assembly of Winchester SX3

There is probably no person who has not heard of the Winchester rifle. This weapon is a legend that is firmly entrenched in the history of development firearms. This rifle is often called “the weapon that conquered the West,” but if you look at it, its distribution in the United States is greatly exaggerated, mainly thanks to literature, and subsequently cinema. When watching films about brave cowboys, one gets the impression that other models of rifles simply did not exist at that time, but this was far from the case. Nevertheless, this weapon can safely be called revolutionary, since it brought the rifles of that time to a completely new level in terms of rate of fire. Advertising at the time claimed that a shooter could fire 10 shots in less than 15 seconds with the first Model 1866, a rate of fire that was truly impressive for a hand-loading weapon.

The secret of the rifle lies in the original design of the safety bracket, which is also a reloading lever. As often happens, the first model was not developed by Winchester at all, but by inventor Henry in 1861, who introduced a new weapon with a fundamentally different, previously never used manual reloading system. Winchester became interested in the invention, bought all the rights to this weapon and started production of the first model of the 1866 model, calling the weapon after itself, and the name of the inventor is mentioned only in the name of the reloading bracket. The first model was fifteen-round, and loading was carried out from the front of the rifle, this significantly slowed down the speed of its loading. Winchester upgraded the weapon to cut its ammunition capacity to 12 rounds, but loading was carried out through the side window, which was much more convenient and faster in comparison with the first version. With the beginning of the proliferation of cartridges with a central ignition primer, rimfire ammunition lost its relevance. It was necessary to modernize the weapon so that it could be fed with new ammunition, and this is how the Winchester model 1873 appeared. In addition to adaptation to the new ammunition, the weapon has undergone a much more thorough modernization than it might seem at first glance. Firstly, the quality of the barrels has increased significantly; it should be noted that the first samples had extremely weak barrels made of very low quality steel, which is why they were not widely used. Secondly, the reloading mechanism has undergone changes; it has been debugged and configured in such a way that jamming, which had previously been quite frequent, especially if reloading was carried out while moving, completely disappeared. Finally, thirdly, the brass reloading bracket was replaced with a steel one, since the former had a very bad property of bending and subsequently breaking.

As you can see, the first model of the rifle was not the best, if not disgusting, this explains its low distribution. However, all the shortcomings were eliminated, and a new model of 1873, reliable as a Swiss watch, appeared on the market. It’s impossible to say that people immediately rushed to buy it. On the contrary, remembering the first model of the weapon, they tried to avoid the new product and treated it with a degree of skepticism. Back then, weapons were bought not for a year or two, but actually for life, and accordingly the price for them was not the smallest. However, a good example of a weapon could not remain unnoticed all the time and gradually, its sales began to gain momentum. In the end, even the most die-hard skeptics recognized the perfection of the new weapon, but the understanding of what was what came too late, in addition to this rifle, other models of weapons appeared on the market that could successfully compete with it, but still from 1873 to 1926, when the second Winchester model was produced, it was created and accordingly sold out more than 900 thousand weapons. This figure only seems so huge, in fact, over a period of more than 50 years, for the huge population of the country it is nothing, especially considering that more than half of the weapons produced were exported.

One of the most common misconceptions about this rifle is that it was in service with the US Army. This never actually happened, despite the fact that the armed forces at that time experienced an acute shortage of weapons and refused to adopt the rifle. The reason for this, paradoxically, was the high rate of fire of the weapon. Interesting fact is that the word “hard drive” in the modern world of computers for the new generation is associated not with weapons, but with a hard drive, an information storage device. This name was attached to the device due to the fact that the first non-separable hard drive had two modules each with a capacity of 30 megabytes, and inside the company it was called 30-30, and one of the project managers for the development of this device noticed the similarity with the name of the Winchester model of 1894.30 -30 Rifle? Hence the name was attached to this device within the company, and the name became widespread thanks to the PR department, which compared the new drive in terms of reliability with the model of a weapon in an advertisement.

Thus, the Winchester rifle of the 1873 model, and subsequent Winchesters, owe their fame not only to the original reloading method, which is much more convenient than juggling the bolt bolt, but also thanks to books, cinema, and such a successful comparison with the first hard drive. Many compare this weapon with great cultural figures, nodding to the fact that the rifle gained its glory only after death. However, it is wrong to talk about the death of the Winchester rifle as a whole without specifying the model; the Henry brace, the main distinguishing feature of the Winchester, is still used, but already in modern models weapons.