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Actually, I read an interesting thing about the Winchester 1895 lever action contract guns that was made for the Russian Imperial Army. Upon delivery, the Tsarist government tried to renege on the contract once the rifles arrived, claiming that the "grain of the wood was incorrect", and other small defects that really had no bearing on the actual functioning of the gun, and rejected guns for silly reasons. I guess in the midst of WW1, the Russian government was in utter chaos and simply in chaos. 
Initial delivery of the rifles was delayed because adaptation to Russian standards, particularly the charger guide, proved more difficult than expected.[5] Additional delays resulted from incompetent and obstructive Russian inspectors, who refused to use Winchester-made test gauges despite no Russian gauges existing,[5] insisted that test ammunition be shipped from Russia (instead of using readily available Winchester ammunition made on Russian contract),[6] and often rejected rifles for irrelevant flaws such as wood grain in the stock being insufficiently straight.[6] Winchester later sold these rejected rifles on the US commercial market.
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