They're not show pieces and can sometimes use a little tuneup
The nice thing about my Rossi is that I don't worry about it. I've got enough safe queens by now, thank you. With the Rossi I just tuned up the action (it helps if you are an amateur gunsmith) and just stick it in the truck in a cheap case. It's a 16" barrel stainless .357 in a nice dark hardwood. About the handiest rifle you can own, except maybe for a Contender Carbine. With iron sights it is not for precision shooting, obviously...
I think the .44 Mag is the cooler caliber, and a good idea if you have grizzlies in the back yard, but you can carry about twice as many .357's as .44's, and is nothing to sneeze at in a rifle-length barrel. I wish Rossi made them in .327 Fed Mag (sigh).