Wheel guns outta fashion. Maybe so, but my Python 7" barrel, custom shop circa 1968 ish- and Dad's older Detective Special Snubbie are my mainstays- although I have a .45ACP Combat Commander, all defensive weapons-and 100% dead reliable. One talking point on wheelguns, even a S&W Dirty Harry .44 Mag- no springs are under tension, outside hammer gives a great trigger pull in single action mode, and an evil-doer in a CQC scenario can see the bullet tips in the cylinder- he has to know (unless he is coked out of his mind) that you have a loaded piece pointed at his "wind and water" sector-and the outcome of his confrontation might spell the end of his nefarious criminal career-RWTF

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..