Have to agree...... your's is a family heirloom gun........not sure I'd put 1000s of hot magnum rounds through it...... but shoot it? YES

I've got my Dad's 6" 1938/39Colt New Service in .357 with sights and action work by Kings........ he carried it and shot it for 39 years as a police officer Sgt, Lt. and Capt............. I took it too Alaska twice in my 20s.........

it gets shot once in a while...... mostly 38s but still looks the same as it did when Dad gave it to me .......... about the turn of the Century!!!!!