Lee-Metford

To recapitulate, it would appear that at mean ranges, both in striking force and as regards the area of the tissues affected, the Lee-Metford is a superior projectile to the Mauser, in spite of the greater initial velocity possessed by the latter.

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

Beyond this it must be noted that the Lee-Metford is the only one of the four that is ensheathed with a mantle composed of a definite alloy, this consisting of 80 parts of nickel and 20 of copper.

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

Maxim or shooting down a foe with a Lee-Metford at four thousand yards as ably as any male; and undoubtedly, it has not been only the peasant girl of France, who has carried latent and hid within her person the gifts that make the supreme general.

Woman and Labour 2003

He had to shout to lift his voice above the whistle and crack of the Boer artillery and the roar of a thousand Lee-Metford rifles as they replied from the windows and doorways of the village.

The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966

"It's a Lee-Metford -" He looked round at the rest of his team.

The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966

Quickly Sean set the rear sight of his Lee-Metford at a thousand yards, wriggled forward on his elbows, hunched down over his rifle and began shooting blindly into the smoke on the heights.

The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966

They ducked and weaved and bobbed as Woodgate's men fired and reloaded, and seventeen hundred Lee-Metford rifles added their voices to the pandemonium Then the first shell, lobbed from a field gun on the reverse slope of Conical Hill, shrieked over the heads of the burghers and burst in a leap of smoke and red dust fifty feet in front of the English trench.

The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966

Lee-Metford; but what ethic, what morality, is _in se_, he leaves untouched.

Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan

Van Heerden was carried out, tied to a chair placed beside a stone wall, and seven Lee-Metford bullets penetrated the brain of the man who was wounded, perhaps mortally, _in the service of the British army_!

In the Shadow of Death P. H. Kritzinger

_A fat man_ (_thunderously, nursing a Lee-Metford sporting rifle_).

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens