well, it has a 6 round cylinder, 2" barrel, typical j-frame, nice rubber grips with shallow finger grooves, has a nice weight and feel to it. it's a .357. they dealer is selling a .38 for the same price. it's the same except it is only a 5 shot. (smaller round 5shot, larger round 6 shot...hmmm, that doesn't make much since to me). i'm not sure why the .38 cost the same either. if figure if i buy the .357 i can shoot both rounds, get an extra shot in, and still pay the same price.
for those of you who didn't know this, apparently taurus has bought out rossi and continues to make guns under the rossi name. these guns also have "made by taurus" ingraved on them as well. taurus offers the same lifetime warranty on their rossi models as they do with their taurus guns.