I grew up on the farm packing and shooting various pistoles of my dads. Mostly a Ruger MK I .22 and occasionally his old Colt Gov't 1911 .45. When I turned 21 dad and I went down to the local tire/gun store and both of us bought .357 Magnum revolvers. I bought a good condition used Dan Wesson M15 and dad bought a brand new S&W M19 Combat Magnum. Both were 4" models. We got a couple boxes of factory loads, a set of loading dies, pound of Unique, primers and several boxes of Speer 146 gr. half jacket semi-wadcutter hollow points. I shot that DW .357 out of time until it was spitting lead so badly it was danged hazardous. I went back to the combo tire-gun shop a few years later and traded it on a Ruger Security Six 4" blued. And on and on it has been...