I bought mine new in the early 80's and liked the idea of having a matching round for my dan Wesson. It was nice to shoot and I went through several boxes of Remington, Winchester and other known brands of quality rounds. One thing I noticed is though you could shoot ,38's in it, for some reason they didn't want to load the barrel well. Found out it was due to the shorter casings, the .38's would sometimes rise in a higher angle and miss the end of the breech. It was more dedicated to .357 and that was ok. But still I thought for a rifle the cartridge combination was a bit weak, so I traded it in for a Ruger model 44 which was semi-auto 44 mag, and now I had a rife and pistol with matching calipers again. It was an interesting rifle with a 4 round rotary clip ea 4+I. And it was ok, and more satisfying to shoot, but the rotary clip was giving problems not holding the cartridges straight.. This became as a known defect with that rifle, otherwise it was a great shooter. But I couldn't have that, so I traded it in on an M1-Garrand. Now we're talking.... Sorry for this block post but this iPhone doesn'take paragraphs well