Month: August 2019

What a Colt Lighting Express Model carbine looks like

  Colt Lighting Express Model carbine Produced by Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Co. c.1887-1894 for British export – serial number 5317 manufactured in 1891. .50-95 Winchester Express 8-round tubular magazine, slide action, side loading gate. Also known as the Colt Lightning large-frame, complementing the medium-frame in .44-40 and the small-frame plinker in .22 rimfire. The … Continue reading “What a Colt Lighting Express Model carbine looks like”