Gary Reeder
WB is right. Unless you plan on being in
Monday, November 25, 2019, 10:11

bear country the 44 Mag will do pretty much anything you need done. If you figure the "power" of a 454 as opposed to the 44, the 454 is about twice, but the recoil is at least twice. Personally I hate the 454. I would rather shoot the 475 or my 510 any day. The 454 knows where your nose is and heads that way, whereas the 475 and 510 may end up pointed straight up but they don't target your face.

There have been days here when I had to shoot 3 or 4 revolvers in 454, usually 10 to 12 in each gun and usually at one sitting and I hated every minute of it. I liken it to the 500 S&W or 500 Maximum in a lightweight revolver. Both are brutal and eventually do damage to your hand, wrist and elbow. A lot of years shooting the big boomers, sometimes 1000 to 1200 a week has done a lot of damage to my right hand. Two surgeries to my hand and it still isn't back to normal. And I know some on here will poo poo what I just said about the 454 recoil and say they can shoot 50 rounds at one sitting. All I can say to that is, have at it boy. The hand surgeons need the business.