A fool and his money: buying a 41 magnum python

For those that don't know, dfariswheel has an excellent post on (paraphrasing) why a colt python in 41 magnum is stupid:
http://forums.1911forum.com/showpost.php?p=1975569&postcount=2

But, I just couldn't help myself and bought one anyway and currently it's at my FFL. However, there are extenuating circumstances!

It's a conversion done by Jack Hungtington:
http://www.jrhgunmaker.com/
He does a lot of work on freedom arms and according to the people I've talked to is very highly regarded. I called him on the phone about this and his view is that 1,000 fps 41 mag loads will be fine in it. He stated he worked at colt for a few years before starting his own shop and that he's worked on around 2,000 pythons. I am taking him at his word. He runs his own shop with 5 guys, so sounds like he is relatively respectable.

So, excuse #1: He lives close enough to me so that if the gun breaks I can drive over and throw it at his shop.

Excuse #2: he did action work on it, and I'd like to take it apart and see what he did. He's supposedly very good, though Grant C does not know who he is, which is a bit worrying.

We shall see how things go. I'm not very proud of being so frivolous with money, but it will be an interesting gun and hopefully educational. I also have an extra NOS barrel and cylinder so in theory I can just convert it back to .357 as a "rescue" operation if need be. (Assuming shooting doesn't quickly damage the frame or kill the shooter, of course)

In any case I'll be: (1) running light loads, (2) measuring measure the barrel / cylinder gap every trip, (3) keeping an eye out for peening, forcing cone issues , or cracks in the frame.

I don't even push my 357 pythons. They don't make frames no more and that steel seems pretty soft. It's always midrange loads and I've switched to lead bullets to be easier on the barrel.

Funny enough on the day I paid for it, Grant Cunningham was talking about the 41 special in his blog:
http://www.grantcunningham.com/blog_files/f57f295a776fd50568d342158a004b7d-530.html

He references this article, which looks like it may come in handy:
http://www.reloadingroom.com/index_files/41%20Special.htm

Must be fate!

So it's about $160 for a dillon 650 caliber conversion + dies, about $70 for 500 starline cases, around $117 for 1000 lasercast 215gr bullets. Adds up pretty quick! Now I remember why I was reluctant to have too many calibers in the past...