qsy-complains-a-lot: Colt Lightning medium frame rifleProduced by Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturi
qsy-complains-a-lot: Colt Lightning medium frame rifleProduced by Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Co. c.1884-1904 - serial number 562..44-40 WCF 15-round tubular magazine, slide-action, side loading gate, ad-hoc repair on the stock in the form of a brass collar.The Lightning was a pump action rifle introduced by Colt to take a cut out of Winchester’s lever action-dominated market. It being initially chambered in .44-40 also made it a good companion firearm for the Colt Frontier Six-Shooter, which itself was a rechambered Peacemaker designed to partner up with a Winchester rifle.You’d think Colt would have saved itself the trouble and just released the Lightning in .45 LC but for some reason that never happened, which ended up being a small blessing as it was a commercial flop. -- source link