In 2012, when all my similar aged friends and I were turning 21, we were all shopping for handguns. Lots ended up with plastic 9mm's and I was the oddity with a wood gripped 3" SP101. Wore it daily for 3 years and shot it only as a DA, I left the hammer alone. I have since traded it for a 4" GP100 so I can keep a really handy .357 but no longer carry it daily. I'd much rather have a striker fired gun on me for personal defense, but I will never be without a .357mag in my "collection." One of my favorite cartridges to shoot, and favorite to reload. When that SP101 was traded, it had over 2000 rounds through it, and very few of them were .38's.