Looks good to me too...now where can we have badges made...cheap.

The .41 Magnum was really unnecessary as was the Model 58....it was all about marketing a new "weapons system" to LE. The probably better solution to the Model 58 already existed....the Pre-Model 21 .44 Special. The problem was because of the .44 Special Triple Lock and some other even less robust guns on the market, neither Remington or Winchester would make anything other than the 246 grain round nose lead bullet.

If there had been a .44 Special +P round with a 225-240 grain soft lead bullet that did an honest 950 fps from a 4" barrel it would have been exactly equal to the .41 Magnum Police Load.

The Model 21 also has a tapered barrel which makes it lighter but that said it would also have recoiled more than the 58 does with an equal load.

There was also the .401 Herters Power Mag.... If S&W didn't have such a big EGO that would have made a MUCH better LE round than the .41 Magnum. Bullets would have been between 135 and 200 grains and would have covered everything that the .40 S&W and 10mm do now in semi-autos.... And Colt could have easily adopted the round to the Python/Trooper line. It was a true crime that the .401 died....

But I'm not complaining... The .41 is way more than the .357 will ever be capable of and will do everything the .44 Magnum will with with less perceived recoil.... It would be an interesting race between a .401 and a .41....

Herter's .401 PowerMag

Bob