I ordered a 4" blue GP-100 as soon as they were introduced in the gun rags...before I'd even seen one in real life. I was going to get a 4" Security-Six, but wanted the "latest and greatest". No regrets, I still have that GP twenty-five years later. In that same time frame, many S&W .357 revolvers have come and gone. Although my taste in revolvers has shifted more to S&W, my GP is a keeper. You can't kill 'em!