Are you talking about the Winchester Lee Straight Pull? If so, here is an early report when the rifle was accepted by the Navy. I'll have to find later reports to see if the Navy actually dropped the rifle for other reasons than to standardize with the Army.

Make sure to click on the four tabs by the scroll bar for different places the rifle was written about in the report.

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A 1910 article from "Hunter, Trader, Trapper"

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BR likely has some insight on this subject.