Posted January 26, 2016 8:00 pm by Comments

By Joe Grine

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Last year, Navy Arms partnered with Winchester and Turnbull and released an outstanding Miroku-made replica of the Winchester 1873 lever action rifle. Public reaction was strong, and for this reason Navy Arms decided to expand the line up to include additional models, including a replica of the Colt 1860 Lighting pump action rifle . . .

Courtesy Joe Grine

The rifle is made by the Italian firm Davide Pedersoli, a company known for their high-quality replica firearms. For this run, Pedersoli adds stocks made from hand-selected, Grade 1 American Walnut, and includes checkering at the wrist and forend.

The guns are then shipped to the United States, where the receiver and metal furniture are bone-charcoal color case hardened, and accented with nitre blued screws and a high-polish blued full octagonal barrel. Sights are a semi-buckhorn rear and gold-bead dovetail front sight. The upper tang is also drilled and tapped to accept the Marble Arms peep tang sight.

According to Navy Arms, there version of the Lighting “has a unique coil-spring extraction system that ensures fast, high ejection of …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns

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