You know Redneck, I think every single person that ever bought a 41 Magnum has posted on this thread twice.
I had a 4" Model 57 41 S&W Magnum in Nickel and traded it away because I already had a 44 Magnum. So, counting my 41 Magnum gun, I think S&W sold a total of about 100 41 Magnums and Ruger maybe the same. Gee, we have some rare antiques and collectibles owned by some of our members. And a fiercely loyal, some would say fanatical, following.
That's also why a box of factory 41 Magnum costs about double of a box of 44 Magnum. Because nobody wants to buy it, nobody wants to stock it, so they charge extra.
However, I have kept my long tom blue 44 Magnum as zealously as a Catholic father keeps a piece of the true cross.
I don't have a lot of use for either the 357 or the 41 S&W Magnum. They are all designed for long tubes, despite what some people will tell you about their hard hitting 3 incher.
The 357 usually comes in too heavy a gun and the 41 is virtually the same heft as the 44, but is a weak sister. There is really no need for it, like the Harley Sportster, unless you want to call it a woman's caliber like the Sportster is a woman's bike. Albeit a hairy-chested woman, to be sure.
I didn't say I couldn't use them, I said I didn't have much use for them.