William: as you know, there are barrels and there are barrel nuts; there are lugs and there are lug nuts, and there is beer and there are beer nuts. I like beer, and beer nuts but not necessarily barrels with full length lugs. I could never really appreciate the Colt Python although I once owned two and never really found favor with the S&W L-frames with the full length barrel lugs - except for that one model they came out with (once) that had a 8" bbl, full underlug, different grips and a smooth cylinder. I think they called that the 'Hunter' model.