Naby if you can afford to purchase enough 357 ammunition to wear out a K-frame magnum, you can easily afford to buy two more to replace it with.

The K-frame magnums were made side by side with the L-frames for over twenty years. Kind of a long production run for a flawed design, don't you think?

S&W doesn't currently produce a revolver as nice as a K-frame magnum. Buy one, shoot it, love it. Get a nice 13, 19 or pre lock 66. Shoot only 158 grain grain 357's and your grandchildren will enjoy that fine revolver.

In forty three years of shooting K-frame magnums I've yet to wear one out or break one in any fashion. Regards 18DAI