I have a 1980's vintage 657 no dash on its way to me, it's the 3" N frame round butt in .41 magnum and am really looking forward to shooting it. I enjoy short barreled magnum revolvers as well, especially if they have comfortable grips, mine has the Smith & Wesson smooth Combat's on it & those are about as good as it gets.
You can load hot heavy loads for hunting or long range rock cracking work, or run specials in them for a relaxing plinking session, I reload so I can cover the whole spectrum.
That's a nice looking 44 mag, enjoy.
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i do have one of those, and have mostly shot cast in it from 180's up to 300grain in 41mag. latest experiment was 41special. Mine has had a action job on it to improve on what was already excellent. I put the smith grips back on it a few months ago, just cause they are purty. Mostly i had hogues on it. A 250grain cast lead hollow point would take care of most everything. I did buy last fall the same gun in a 629 44magnum.
you can't really tell them apart on a table.
