{"id":29076,"date":"2026-03-05T07:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/is-this-the-fastest-pistol-caliber-repeater-the-colt-lightning-slide-action-rifle\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:46:32","slug":"is-this-the-fastest-pistol-caliber-repeater-the-colt-lightning-slide-action-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/is-this-the-fastest-pistol-caliber-repeater-the-colt-lightning-slide-action-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the fastest pistol caliber repeater? &#8211; The Colt Lightning slide action rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CoetWns2CUE?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Colt Lightning was advertised as the fastest pistol caliber repeater of the last decades of the 19th century. However it was only manufactured for 20 years. If you want to know why, this video is for you. Evaluation is based on shooting an original manufactured in  1897.<\/p>\n<p>Please support us at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/c\/capandball\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/c\/capandball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#colts #firearmshistory #firearmseducation #19thcentury #western<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colt Lightning was advertised as the fastest pistol caliber repeater of the last decades of the 19th century. However it was only manufactured for 20 years. If you want to know why, this video is for you. Evaluation is based on shooting an original manufactured in 1897. Please support us at: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/c\/capandball #colts #firearmshistory&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/is-this-the-fastest-pistol-caliber-repeater-the-colt-lightning-slide-action-rifle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is this the fastest pistol caliber repeater? &#8211; The Colt Lightning slide action rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}