agree with most... the rubber grips help with "shootability"
& I relate a short story... I have a 454 Casull Ruger Alaskan... I posted about buying it, while it was on lay away from the LGS... nearly everyone said I was going to whack myself in the head, & already had me talked into Magna Porting it, while it was still on lay away...
well being the science guy I am, I wanted to shoot it before I had it ported, so I could report how much difference the porting made... I shot it, fully expecting it to whack me in the head, so with very stiff arms... it wasn't as bad as I thought, but I was holding so stiff, that I actually caused bullet jump, even on pretty heavily crimped factory loads... after I realized I wasn't going to dent my head... I loosened up my grip to "normal", didn't jump crimp any more, & decided I didn't even want to send it out for porting... that said, the Alaskan does have rubber grips...
This is my 44 Mag snubbie ( a custom Dan Wesson, with a barrel nut / compensator, & rubber grips ) I can shoot this one all day
BTW... not every boomer I shoot has rubber grips ( I actually have an aversion to them ) you should be able to find a nice wood grip ( covering the backstrap seems to help a lot, but can make the grip bigger in the hand, depending on the grip frame of the gun ) properly shaped & angled, can help a lot...
also in normal times, you can find CAS level factory 44 mag ammo, which would drop the recoil a lot, & if you do get started reloading, using Trailboss powder, can easily drop your 44 mag loads down below even factory 44 Special in recoil...
there are a lot of advantages to just down loading the 44 mag cases, the biggest being you won't get those darned carbon rings in your chambers... I have many revolvers that can even fit 3 lengths of cartridge... I rarely shoot the shorter cases, since I can just down load the longer cases... another advantage, is the reduced bullet jump...
