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Picture Page August 2013 The Colt Lightning Magazine Rifle cartridges.....
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Colt catalogs included listings for the cartridges used in all of its hand guns and long guns; illustrations of the cartridges for the Lightning rifles were all identified as Colt's New Lightning Magazine Rifle cartridges, even those that were based on the cartridges that were the exact same load as had been introduced earlier by other companies, including the ..22 Short rim fire, .22 Long rim fire, .38-56 Winchester, the .40-60 Marlin, and the .50-95 Winchester.
While the illustrations of the cartridges in the Colt catalogs, like those from the Colt 1890 catalog shown above, bear the headstamps of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company also produced ammunition especially for the popular Colt rifles. Of the cartridges that were chambered in the Colt Lightning rifles, Winchester produced four with distinctive headstamps that identified them as being intended for use in the Colt rifles. Three of these, the .32-20, .38-40 and .44-40, included C.L.M.R. in the headstamp, which stood for Colt's Lightning Magazine Rifle. These differed from the standard Winchester black powder loadings for these cartridges in the weight of either the powder charge or the bullet: .32 C.L.M.R. 20 grains black powder 100 grain lead bullet .32 W.C.F. 20 gr black powder 115 gr lead bullet
.38 C.L.M.R. 38 gr black powder 180 gr lead bullet .38 W.C.F. 40 gr black powder 180 gr lead bullet
.44 C.L.M.R. 40 gr black powder 217 gr lead bullet .44 W.C.F. 40 gr black powder 200 gr lead bullet
.45-85 Colt (.45-85) - 83 grains black powder 285 grain lead bullet .45-85 Bullard (.45-85 BUL.) - 85 gr black powder 295 gr lead bullet .45-85 Marlin (.45-85 MAR.) - 85 gr black powder 285 gr lead bullet
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