Great to hear these stories of guns handed down from generation to generation. Mine's a had-down too. It's an 1851 Colt Navy that was carried by the man I'm named after. He served in a unit from Pennsylvania during the Civil War. Just a neat old gun I've never fired and never will. There seems to be some conjecture on it's origin though. All the serial numbers, including the cylinder match, and from what I've been told, the chances of having a combat-carried revolver with a matching SN on the cylinder are pretty rare, as they carried multiple cylinders and swapped them out for quicker reloads as opposed to reloading one cylinder in the gun itself. At any rate, it's a family heirloom to me.
