I purchased a surplus ex-San Antonio PD duty Model 58 in 1984, and used it as my duty sixgun for most of the rest of the 1980s. It was so smooth, that with the help of it's very narrow trigger, which had been relieved for an even shorter reach, it performed very well for me in spite of my hands not really being large enough for an N-frame. When it became just too loose to keep shooting it in DA mode anymore, I retired it from active service, but I still have it, as a reminder of the times of high adventure on the mean
streets.
(I still patrol those streets, which can still be wild and dangerous, at times, but the 1980s and early 1990s were really something, a different era.)
I owned another 58, that was near-mint, that I fired only a few times, that I kept as a spare, and a
657 that I would be more likely to carry in wet conditions. These did not have the dressed-down
trigger face like my ex-SAPD sixgun, nor were they as smooth in the action, so I did not shoot
them as well. (Remember, N-frames are too big for my hands.) I eventually sold these. I also
briefly owned a Redhawk that was really too big for me.
More recently, I have very nearly bought a Freedom Arms Model 97, chambered in .41 Magnum, from a local dealer. Twice, a .41 FA 97 stayed almost long enough for me to scrape together the resources to buy, or start a layaway. Yes, I do think it was the same FA sixgun, as a new firearm
the first time, as again as a pre-owned firearm; I remembered the distinctive serial number.
Assuming FA can stay in business, an FA 97 is the leading contender for my next, eventual .41 Mag sixgun.