Winchester Model 1895 manufactured for the army of Russian Empire (second from the left).īetween 19 approximately 294,000 M1895's were manufactured for the airforce and police units of the Russian Empire, accounting for about 70% of total production of the rifles prior to 1932 when the M1895 was discontinued.
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These early rifles are now exceedingly rare. By serial number 6000, it is thought that the last of the flat sided M1895s left the factory.
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This new receiver reduced the weight of the rifle by a small amount, and increased the width by 1/16 of an inch. Īround serial number 5000, a new receiver profile was introduced which had fluted (scalloped) sides, as opposed to the original flat sided design. By today's standards however, the design is considered relatively weak, and not suited to high pressure loads. The M1895 is the strongest lever-action rifle Winchester has produced, designed to handle the increased pressures generated by the more powerful smokeless powder cartridges entering common use at the time of its introduction. The M1895 was also the last of the lever-action rifles to be designed by John Browning, and featured a rear locking bolt as in his previous designs dating back to the Winchester 1886.
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This allowed the rifle to safely chamber military and hunting cartridges with spitzer (pointed) bullets. The first Model 1895 was the first Winchester rifle to feature a box magazine that is located underneath the action instead of the tubular magazine design, which had remained fundamentally unchanged from the Winchester 1866.