[bmcgilvray]

I'd leave it be for sure. Sell it and purchase the configuration you want. The 3-inch barrel is sensible as such revolvers conceal as easily as those with 2-inch barrels with the small but perceptible advantages of the extra inch of barrel length. The difference though is not worth making a mongrel of a 2-inch Detective Speical. The 3-inch configuration may be found on occasion on GunBroker.