Lightning Shooters Videos

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

I found this on YouTube.   It's a collection of a bunch of different pards shooting their Lightnings at some different shoots.   There is one fellow who's in a lot of them, but you do get to see a lot of people shooting this incredibly fun guns.   [But not me...]

 

 

[Yusta B.]

First 3 are Lassiter. You won't find many faster than him with a lightning.

[Yul Lose]

Loose Latigo is the Lightning shooter in the 4th and 5th segment and the Western 3 gun segment. He can’t use a Lightning anymore as his shoulders have worn out and his replacements won’t let him operate a Lightning. I bought the Lassiter (Pedersoli) slam fire Lightning that he’s using in the video from him about 3 years ago and it’s my main match rifle. I’m bringing a couple of more Lightning’s to EOT this year for him to take back to his shop and do the slam fire mod on them. I love Lightning rifles, thanks for posting.

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

37 minutes ago, Yul Lose said:

I love Lightning rifles, thanks for posting.

 

You are most welcome.   I too love the Lightning.  Both of my clean matches, EoT and the MA/CT/RI Tristate were shot with one.   I know that it will likely never be anything other than a niche rifle with the world of CAS with it's small but devoted following.   Even so, it's great to see so many people demonstrating that they can be used with no problems, and in the hands of an expert, used very competitively.  I never thought my desire to get one, "just to have one," would grow into me have a preference for them over the various lever action guns that I grew up loving so much.   Or that I would turn around one day have not one, but 5 of the things!   2 AWA's, and 3 Colts, including a .22.    I am saving up my pennies with a real desire to purchase a Large Frame one, probably in .45-85, which uses the same brass as .45-70.   I'd also love to get one of the AWA Lightning Bolt pistols, but that's not an option where I live.  Plus, they are incredibly rare.

[LostVaquero]

Aime West runs one real good.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Slow as I am, I enjoyed watching those lightnings sing.

It's always makes me jealous to see unshrouded steel targets on the range.

Here in Ontario, Canada, we must have shrouds around them to ensure there are no ricochets and splatter doesn't leave the range.

We do get away with not shrouding shotgun targets.

(Don't try to figure it out or rationalize it,  it's "Official government agency policy".)

 

The lower picture shows a little more detail of the construction of shrouds and shows the transmission belting we install to help cut down the damage to the wood.

 

[Major General Shagnasty]

On 3/9/2020 at 6:55 AM, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:

 

You are most welcome.   I too love the Lightning.  Both of my clean matches, EoT and the MA/CT/RI Tristate were shot with one.   I know that it will likely never be anything other than a niche rifle with the world of CAS with it's small but devoted following.   Even so, it's great to see so many people demonstrating that they can be used with no problems, and in the hands of an expert, used very competitively.  I never thought my desire to get one, "just to have one," would grow into me have a preference for them over the various lever action guns that I grew up loving so much.   Or that I would turn around one day have not one, but 5 of the things!   2 AWA's, and 3 Colts, including a .22.    I am saving up my pennies with a real desire to purchase a Large Frame one, probably in .45-85, which uses the same brass as .45-70.   I'd also love to get one of the AWA Lightning Bolt pistols, but that's not an option where I live.  Plus, they are incredibly rare.

Hi H.K.  I am going to be shooting an AWA .45 this season and could use a few tips., What bullet lenght works well, what bullet weight works well, and will the AWA slam fire like the colts with out any mods.  Thanks for the videos on these guns.

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

6 hours ago, Major General Shagnasty said:

9Hi H.K.  I am going to be shooting an AWA .45 this season and could use a few tips., What bullet lenght works well, what bullet weight works well, and will the AWA slam fire like the colts with out any mods.  Thanks for the videos on these guns.

 The AWA does indeed slam fire.  I use the same 200 grain round nose flat point that I use in my revolvers.   I crimp in the crimp groove.  Bullets of this weight and shape are almost identical in length from nose to base, regardless of who made them.   I just buy whatever bullets I can find when I go to the store.  If the next batch of bullets are not the same maker as my previous ones, I reset my seating/crimp die to the new batch of bullets because sometimes the crimp groove will be in a slightly different place.  Never more than the width of the groove.   For powder I use Trailboss.  That's what I run in my AWA .45 and it works great.  

 

One major tip, keep the gun clean.   After every match, squirt some gun scrubber through the firing pin channel and flush out the innards.  Wipe it all down with Hoppes Number 9 and oil appropriately.   Keeping the firing pin clean is essential to making the gun work right.   I learned this the hard way.   

 

Good luck, and welcome to the the flashy side.   

"The Flashy Side" is my new term for those who shoot Lightnings.  As in "a flash of Lightning."  I just made it up right now.   Let's see if it is catches on.