Ah, well, it's like this:
I practice with what I carry, and, since I have a CCW, I shoot winter and summer, in my back yard.
Now, while I could carry a 1911 in the winter, given the clothing you have to wear to stay warm, have you ever tried to find the brass in a foot or more of snow?
So, while the H&K USP .40 is the (available) weapon of choice, in the winter, we do the revolver.
Currently, the carry gun is a Colt DS, a 28 YO, and I've no idea of how that age happened, though I bought it new, six shot. I only fire single action, though I sometimes have to start with the double trigger pull, and, for the most part, it, and I work OK. No hope for a rapid reload, though, at least by auto standards.
But, my preference, if I hadn't shot it out, is the old Charter Arms .44 special. At 19 ounces with a 3", what more could you ask, assuming you could handle the recoil, which was much easier with after market stocks.
Skip the fancy bullets: something around a 250 Keith slug, done in Linotype should pretty much cover anything under 25 yards or so.
You know, it's only the double action trigger that now sucks: the lockup, after factory rebuild, is solid, and I'm doing your standard sized water ballons with three of five at twenty five, single action.
Maybe a trigger job, rather than a Taurus, is in order: I really do like the "big holes every time" side of the coin.
And I'll consider S&W again when I see the feds advertise their denunciation of the original "contract".