I never could warm up to the L-frames. The full length barrel lug of the Python looks natural there - not so to my eye on the S&W. I had a Python and sold it because the grip was too large for my smallish hands and grip options were too few for me back in the pre-Internet days in my rural Ozark neighborhood. I also had a bit of trouble getting accustomed to the long Colt action as opposed to my more familiar S&W guns. I tried the L-frames when they first came out and even packed one on duty for awhile. No doubt they are beefier than the K-frames, but they just didn't seem to point as well for me and I went back home to my old friends in the K-frame family.
That's my take on it as well. To top it off, I knew the introduction of the L-frame signaled the demise of the K-frame, and I've held that against the L's ever since. Yep, I'm a vindictive bastid.
