British Lee-Enfield Rifle
Full-length right-side view of a Lee-Enfield rifle. Photo property of Eisel Armory. The Lee-Enfield entered British service in 1895 as a bolt-action repeater chambered in .303 British, refined a decade later into the Short Magazine Lee-Enfield (SMLE) that armed British and Commonwealth forces through both World Wars and well into the second half of the […]
American M1 Garand Rifle
America’s World War II Standard-Issue Rifle Full-length right-side profile of a U.S. M1 Garand rifle. Photo property of Eisel Armory. Adopted by the U.S. Army in 1936, the M1 Garand became the first semi-automatic rifle issued as standard equipment to an entire army, and it remained America’s primary infantry rifle through World War II and […]