Want to trade a scope mount for your rear sight?
In all seriousness, After purchasing it this way my take on this setup is "Meh", and I've been looking for a rear sight ever since to bring it back to original. The mount is a Buehler and is D&T'd. Not a huge deal to me,
Its fun to play with at first, but the drawbacks outweigh the benefits for me.
The crosshairs are finer than iron sights, allowing for a more precise sight picture
The 2x magnification, while not much, does allow for a bit easier sighting while shooting 50+ yards
Its an extremely soft shooter even with full power loads
It gets a lot of looks at the range on the rare occasions it goes.
But
It's quiet large and heavy for a 6 shot .357. You aren't going to be concealed carrying this anywhere except in a range bag from the car to the bench, and certainly not in a holster.
The hammer is hard to reach, to the point its almost a safety hazard when decocking, as there is barely enough room between the hammer and the scope for your thumb when close to full drop.
Waving your arm around in front of your face trying to find the right eye relief gets old,
Things that are too small to see well enough to shoot with the irons are still going to be pretty small in the scope...2x isn't a lot, but its hard to go higher without your sight picture being really shaky, as was mentioned.
There's no point in shooting anything but .357's in the gun, and I tend to shoot much more .38's out of a .357 than I do .357 loads.
and,
IMO it ruins the lines of a classic looking revolver.
There isn't a turn line on the cylinder or case head marks on the recoil shield, which speaks to how much I've shot it since I bought it.
Basically it turns a fairly versatile revolver into a one or two trick pony. If you are looking for that one trick, great. Its a great setup for a tree stand handgun hunter, or a long range steel plinker. I have a scoped S.Redhawk in .44 that is legal to hunt with, and a .357 isn't where I'm at, so its kind of redundant for me. I might have to try ringing steel with it out past 100 yds +, just to get some use out of it until I find a sight.