The Changes and Alterations to the Winchester-Lee Rifle were many and eventually involved: the bolt, bolt-stop, firing-pin, safety, and extractor.

Author, Eugene Myszkowski, in his work, "The Winchester-Lee", does a noble job of documenting, explaining, and attempting to illustrate these subtle part differences and evolution. (Still, it is somewhat confusing to me).

IMHO - Myszkowski's works on the Winchester-Lee and Remington-Lee should be in every Krag enthusiast's library. The price of the paper-bound Excalibur Publications is reasonable.

The re-print of the Navy 'ordnance manual' is also fun to have.

As a young collector, I once owned a commercial Winchester-Lee sporting rifle that I bought for $25 from a 'bubba' in Northern Michigan.

I was able to undo most of the stove paint and wood damage 're-finish' that was done to it. However, at $1.00 a round (for original ammo in the late 1960's), I never got to shoot it. It was certainly too advanced a re-loading project for me at that time.

Even in my youth, I realized there were many 'weak' aspects to the Lee Straight-Pull design and parts.