Two Rangers, One Colt: NRA National Firearms Museum Featured Guns Video

http://www.nationalfirearmsmuseum.org Probably the most recognized item in any Texas Rangers wardrobe, outside his circular Silver Star badge, has to be his sidearm. During the frontier period, and even into the modern era, the traditional sidearm of many Texas Rangers was the Colt Single Action Army revolver, chambered in the hard-hitting .44-40 or .45 Colt. Many of these sidearms were unembellished, functional revolvers, but an engraved example with mother-of-pearl grip panels could be seen in a Rangers holster from time to time.  

This Colt .45, engraved by Hartley & Graham, was given by Harrison Hamer to his brother Frank. On loan from the collection of Kurt House, this historic Colt revolver is just one of dozens of items loaned to the National Firearms Museum as part of their special exhibit, Guns West!, that tells the story of Americas Western history through historical arms, the guns of Hollywood and those used in Cowboy Action Shooting.