I've got the very same gun. Picked it up ~2008 for $350 believe it or not!

I've always loved the unfluted look and swore I would some day own one. Over the last 10 years I've pretty much migrated towards shooting only my DA revolvers and have dumped all but one of my SAs. With all that trigger time on K's, L's and N's, and have to agree with TSquared comments about cylinder mass. You can feel the difference, even though it is probably only a couple ounces of steel.

Because of that, my mind has changed on my preference for that unfluted look.

I'm still trying to score a whitetail with mine. Let a bunch of does go by the last two seasons. One thing that is good about all the mass that this gun has for a .357 - it soaks up recoil from hot 170 or 180 grain hand-loads very well.