Just 20 years after the Civil War– a conflict in which the common soldier used a percussion-fired muzzleloader that even the most highly trained marksman could only fire three times *per minute*– Remington leap ahead in firearms technology by bringing a bolt-action repeating rifle that fed from a box-magazine to the market– James Paris Lee’s Model 1885.Īfter that, Remington was heavily involved in making P14 and M1917 Enfield-pattern bolt-action rifles in World War I, first for the British and then for Uncle Sam.
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