(No, not this first picture.)
"Mae Fires the WWI Winchester 1894." Click below for full video.
Full video here: Mae Fires the WWI Winchester 1894 - YouTube
THE PICTURE BELOW SAYS IT ALL: Being open on the bottom like that, with some delicate linkages, both made firing prone difficult and subjected the action to dirt and damage. Troops who over the several decades between their advent and WW2 who carried them liked the higher rate of fire over bolt-actions. Yet the larger picture remained.
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