I used the 19-3 after I moved to FL to qualify when taking my course for the concealed permit.
The instructor asked who was qualifying with a revolver and I raised my hand along with a couple newbie shooters. He asked them what they were shooting and they said they were shooting Airweights. After criticizing them for choosing a lightweight revolver as their 1st gun and letting a gun store guy talk them into that specific type of gun, he asked me what I was shooting. I told him a S&W 19-3 .357
The look on his face was
I did bring my CZ 75 SP01 Tactical but I hadn't shot it in a while and I didn't want to look bad during the qualifying shots (plus, this range had a "brass hits the floor its ours" policy and I wasn't giving them any more of my $$).
I asked them when they said they required 25 shots within the silhouette if I could only shoot 20 if I put them all within the 9 ring...they agreed but said if I didn't, they'd make me shoot 50.
Well, they didn't know how well this gun shoots those .38SPL 3-D 148gr SWCs I picked up a while back.
20 shots, all but one to the 10 and X rings with the final one just a little high in the 9.
The instructor was a bit egg-faced as I'm sure most of the people he sees have limited firearms experience. I just couldn't get that
off my face because I LOVE shooting this revolver!!