bigpappa, Great gun. The day I turned 21, I went out and bought the S&W M19 Combat. I loved that gun. Just remember that it is built ona medium frame and not the heavy frame. I cannot even begin to recall the number of rounds I put through that gun and non of them were light. I'd have to look up my reloading notes from back then, early eighties, but I seem to recall 17.5 grns. of H110 behind speer 140 grn. jacketed flat points. Big fire ball. Some people at the rangethought Iwas shooting a44mag. Anyway I kept shaking the gun apart with the huge volume of those big bangers. I eventually had to retire it and replaced it with a Colt King Cobra .357.