Since it is your first revolver, you haven't yet gotten that scope business out of your head and off your guns. I have one scoped revolver and it is an 8 3/8" barrel 41 Magnum Smith 657 (N-frame). My Match Champion is a much smaller gun and is not too big to carry concealed in its simplest form. My Smith 657 4" is more comparable, but as an N-frame is substantially more bulky, heavy, and hard to conceal than the Match Champion sized only for 357 Magnum.