Enjoy this COLT rifle...BILL
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Colt 'Lightning Slide Action Medium Frame. These rifles were in cal. 32/20, 38/40 and 44/40...These were calibers which were shared with Colt's Single Action Revolvers Model of 1873 and Double action Model of 1878 Frontier Revolvers.. So the rifle could serve as a companion weapon, to the pistol and vise versa...BILL -
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top ejection of empty ctgs.....Comment
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top ejection of empty 38/40 ctgs......Comment
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Bill, you are just simply amazing! Thanks for posting, and keep em commin!
JohnnieComment
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The Colt Lightening rifle caused quite a rift between Colt and Winchester. Because of prior cooperation on the use of the 44-40 (and later cartidges 32-20 and 38-40) cartridge for both the 1873 model P (peacemaker) and the Winchested 1873 (and later models) lever actions, Winchested was shocked that Colt would go into business competing with Winchester. When Winchested advised Colt that they would start developing pistols, the Colt Lightening rifle was suspended. The Colt Lightening was the fastest shooting rifle of it's time and possibly would have overtaken the success of the Winchester lever action series.
Bob HritzIn the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
Duct tape can't fix stupid, but it can muffle the sound.Comment
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Would go nice with my Colt SAA 44-40 4 3/4 Inch.Comment
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Excellent, Bill, and the history is most interesting Bob, thanks for chiming in...
rThe probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.
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I've got to be honest here; I don't think I've even seen one of these before?
(However, I don't collect old west stuff, so I don't go looking for it either.) But these are very cool, and very interesting history lesson for me here!
Keep them coming Bill!
Matt
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