My reply to this ended up in the S & W thread.

The only experience that I have had with these revolvers is that one of our parttime officers had one for a duty weapon over 25 years ago while I was the range training officer. Our requirement was a .38 Special 6 shot revolver with a 4-6" barrel provided by the officer. He would come to the range and fire a minimum qualifying score and that was good enough. I didn't think much of it but it worked for him. He bought it for less than $100 and a S&W or Colt would have cost something like $150. I haven't seen one for sale in many years but I doubt that it would sell for more than $150 now.