In other words, in the late Qing Dynasty, our weapon was an international exposition. In addition, the translation is also very strange, such as Xinli, Kuaili, Yulin and so on. This is often confusing.
In 1890, Liu Qixiang, general manager of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, wrote: "The rifle styles of rifles are changing with each passing day, and there are different types. Among the more exquisite mooncakes, Mao Se, Yili and Hutchison are the most exquisite.
Mao Se here should refer to M187184, and the hatchet is Winchester hatchet, but both goods use tubular magazines. As far as this design is concerned, there are two shortcomings. One is that the reloading speed is very slow, which is not as good as Manlixia's inline magazine. Another point is that at that time, although the bullets of the black powder rifle were all round heads, the short recoil caused the bullets in the warehouse to go off when they were launched. However, Yi Li rifle is much better than them ~
If you change your familiar name, Yi Lee is Li. James lee, the designer of the Lynfield rifles used by the British army in the First World War, is the same person. ..
James lee1836 was born in Scotland, but moved to Canada with his family when he was five years old. Then 1858, newly-married Xiao Li moved to Wisconsin with his daughter-in-law to start a business. He was very interested in machinery, especially firearms, since he was a child. Even when 12 years old, he used an old pistol barrel, wood and a coin as a medicine pool, and DIY made a flintlock gun. He is both interested and talented, and he just grew up in the era of firearms technology upgrading in the19th century. I feel sorry for him if he doesn't do something.
If the 65438+60' s was the revolution of breech and all-metal loading, then the 70' s was the cradle of renju guns. Li Zhongqing did design some guns for the US military earlier, but it was not famous at that time. By 1878, it applied for the patent of detachable magazine, and the next year it found Remington company, hoping to cooperate with them to produce its own magazine-type renju rifle.
But at that time, Remington had developed a batch of magazine-tube rifles called Keane rifles. They thought that investing in renju rifles at this time would affect Keane's sales, so they told james lee that even if they jumped from here, they wouldn't use his magazine design.
Depressed, Xiao can only take the design and run to Hips Company. At that time, the head of Shipes Company was Hugo Bochat, who later designed an automatic pistol similar to a hammer. Obviously, Bosschaart has foresight. He thinks Xiao Li's rifle is very promising, and even helps to improve Xiao Li's magazine design. But ... Heaps went bankrupt as soon as he finished designing the gearbox. ...
Xiao Li, who was depressed about X2, was hit hard at that time, but his luck changed. I found Xiao Li who was depressed about X2 for Remington who was depressed about X 1 and went to Remington with the newly developed case and my own magazine.
1879, the first prototype rifle came out. There is no doubt that the concept of this magazine rifle is very advanced. The US Navy first purchased 300 rifles for trial use, and the ammunition type was naturally the same as that of that year, 45-70 black powder rifles.
In other words, although Remington Lee Rifle magazine was forward-looking from a modern perspective, it may not be applicable at that time. Because the spare magazine occupies a large space first, the US military standard carries four spare magazines, plus 100 rounds of bulk bullets. But the problem is that the Li rifle at that time didn't have a bridge clip loading design, so all four magazines were finished, or they squatted aside and slowly reloaded the magazines. Otherwise, you can only fight alone in the secret room. ...
In addition, there is nothing special about Li-style rifle, which is a well-behaved mobile rifle with a bolt. The tenon is mainly stuck in front of the holster by pulling the handle. In those days, black powder bolts were basically locked like this. However, there is a small tenon on the opposite side of the handle of the Li-style gun, and this design can also be seen in later Linfield rifles.
1882 and 1885, Xiao Li made some improvements, for example, the handle of the wire drawing machine was bent backwards; Improved magazines, etc. The pictures from bottom to top are Remington Lee 1879, 1882, 1885, Winchester Zhila Lee (Navy Lee) and Remington Lee 1899.
Then Xiao Li's misfortune came again ... the original model 1885 was quite good. Not only the US Navy, but also the army, a major customer, was interested, but 1886, the French smokeless gunpowder rifle came out ... The dimension of smokeless gunpowder was reduced, which made Li 1885 instantly fall out of favor. By 1892, the army turned out the brand of Cragg Jorgensen rifle in the choice of new rifles.
Xiao Li was depressed by X3, and felt that America was simply the grave of his entrepreneurship. Fortunately, the British owned their own magazines in the late 1980s ... and made Lee Metford and Lee Enfield rifles.