Your right. Use the gun for what is intended for.It is not your everyday plinker.I use mine as a carry in the woods,no problem.Don't a lot of people use the S&W 329PD Airlite .44 mag as a mountain hike or woods gun? Knowing it is painful on the hand, but in a "I need it now or get the big bear off me moment", the pain quickly disappears? Kind of like toting the Ruger .454 Casull Alaskan- it's sounds and handles like hell came back on earth, but when you need it in an emergency up in bear country, suddenly you forgive its' sins.