I originally bought my 28 to somewhat experiment with. But it is a boat anchor compared to the 19. And the atvantage of the 19 is being able to hot load to some extent the 38special without stressing anything. I'm kind of jacking around with this caliber, given i like 41 and 44, and 45 much better.
You hit the nail on the head with all of that. You have discovered like many of us have, that cartridges whose caliber begins with a four can do everything the 9mm/38 special/.357 magnum can do and then some. Frankly, although I have the others and have cast, loaded, and shot them for many years, all I use very much now is a 44 special running between 850 and 1000 FPS.
