I have often heard horror stories about the .44 magnum! The recoil is supposed to be horrible and will put a “button Hole” in the middle of your forehead if you are not careful!
So I eventually got a .44 mag S&W, put some Pachmayr grips (small) on it and blasted away! The grips turned it into a pussycat!
I was a TINY dude. Will never forget holding that rifle in my hands. It looked like a cannon. Dad had me aim at a tree and pull the trigger.
Almost forty years later and I still cannot describe the sounds and the colors I saw after the recoiled scope hit the top of my nose square between the eyes. The blast knocked me flat on my back. Blood gushed out. I still have the scar from that incident.
I've been reluctant to shoot any gun since. Maybe it's time to finally overcome that fear?
I have owned a bunch of guns over my lifetime, but I never had any inclination to get a “Dirty Harry” Model 29 .44 Magnum revolver. Too big, too heavy, and I’m not a revolver fan.
But - a table mate of mine at a gun show last year had a really cherry M29 with the 8 3/8 inch barrel, blued and the price was attractive, so I bought it.
I had to at least try it out, so I bought a box of older Remington ammo and headed for the range.
I loaded it, aimed in, and squeezed the trigger.
That dang thing roared, with a huge muzzle flash and everybody around me stopped shooting to see what made that noise. It felt like first time I fired a big pistol when I was a kid - complete with that feeling of being just plain big for me - but the recoil was comparatively mild and after six shots, it grouped like a match pistol at 25m!
I’m keeping this one!