Today there are some hunters who use lever action in africa copilots marlin guides and 1895 an ph callen eddie van graan who always guides jeff coopers use a copilot 4570 there are some photos in jim wests page from alaska.Sometimes i use my marlin 4570 guiding boar and bufalo hunting.juan pablo pozzi

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I doubt any Boers used M95's. They started the war with Mausers (M93's and some M95's) and the free state Burgers with an assortment of Martini's, Westley - Richards and some Portuguese single shots like an improved martini. The Governments of both thee Orange and South African (Transvaal)Free states bought Mauser Rifles and carbines which they forced Burgers to buy, just as the British and BSAP colonial authorities were forcing emigrants to central Africa to buy a .303. If you have to buy a mauser - for which there is cheep government ammo, why rush out and buy a winchester for which ammo was very scarce in the boer republics before the war.

By the Bloemfontein and Pretoria fell, cutting off their access to reserves of 7mm and .450 ammo the teritorial units had almost entirely been replaced by British regulars, and the few colonial units still engauged were equiped and paid by the Imperial government. They all would have been carrying Lee- metfords, Lee enfields or Martini Enfields, and it is there weapons that the Boers would have armed themselves with.

Also, after 1899, the colonials left the shattering defeats to the imperial troops. There would have been little oportunity for a boer to pick up an M95.

Lastly, why carry a Winchester M95 when you can carry a Lee carbine? The little Lee's were lighter, held more rounds, were quicker to load, and faster to shoot than the Winchester. Unless you were left handed I can see little appeal for the M95. The boers - and the colonials carried their rifles slung over their backs rather than in a scabard on the horse. A bolt is no hinderence to comfortable carry like this (and the rifle is on you when you dismount - even if you are thrown or knocked off your horse).