tskog - welcome to THR. for other 642 shooters, my wife has mine, and has entered a relaionship with it. i call it GONE. she has Crimson Trace grips and when she lets me shoot it, i have some double action fun. i get a two handed grip, hold the gun about belt buckle high and twist my body a little to get windage and tip the muzzle up or down a little for elevation. it is easy to chase that red dot all over a silhouette target. wife just holds center and blows a big hole in it.
dont seem to hurt it to shoot it lots cause she gets going and keeps on going and going. i get a few cylinders out of it and she thinks i am having too much fun and takes it back and starts having some of her own.
lucky is the man that has a 642 and even luckier if he has a wife that loves to shoot, and, reloads her own by the K as she shoots it by the K
my 642 had a sorry triger when i got it. everyone said it would improve with use. it did and is a normal good SnW trigger now. get some snap caps and "kill" everything that moves on your TV. no point wasting all that time cocked back in the recliner without doing something for the shooting sport.