I have both
Ruger Super Redhawk purchased used for three hundred something, I traded an Italialn blue and wood Beretta 9mm and a few bucks for something I could actually use.
I shoot hunter shilouette with this gun every year at least a few matches. I shot a deer with it last year and decided 44 mag is plenty for deer.
I do not load over Sammi specs for this gun. It has fired a few thousand hand loads, no factory loads ever because I am too cheap. It shoots my cast gas check bullets far better than in the picture.
I also have a Smith model 25-7 (45 colt) with the unfluted cylinder. I shoot this gun in the Silhouette match as my iron sight gun. It has a 5" barrel and I do fine.
I bought the smith long before the Ruger, so it was my hunting gun that wore the scope pictured above. I loaded and shot ruger only loads in that smith for a few years until I finally bought the Super Redhawk.
Now I only shoot 9 grains Unique and a cast 255 grain bullet out of the Smith even for silhouette.
Both guns show no wear. Both fit the application perfectly.
If I load the Ruger light like with 44 specials, it leads the bore. Full house loads never lead. I don't shoot reduced loads in this gun. I do have 2 44 specials, a smith and a bulldog.
David