In a strangely practical sort of way, I like the "bull barrel" feature. Esthetically it might suck, trashing our preconceived notions as to how a 3 inch S/S K should look? But, not having fired one of the later dashes I'm not so sure that with full house .357's in her, she might be just a smidgen more controllable with a whiff more weight at her muzzle? I still like her! But then, I've never met a K I didn't! And in a real world type of application, that express V and F/O front would be mighty comforting.