A buddy of mine down in Healdsburg bought two of Cabelas round barreled .44 brass framed ''Navys'' just to test them to distruction, shooting many thirty grain charges of 2F Goex and .454 round ball. After about a year and over three hundred rounds through each gun, he got sore wrists, and got bored trying to shoot those sixguns to pieces, and sold them to me. I started shooting them with twenty grains instead, only selling the about a year or two ago to another buddy to finance a Ruger Old Army. They're STILL going. On the other hand as a young man I had a steel framed Colt SAA clone called a Dakota, in .357 I shot loose in about five years useing full house magnum loads for plinking, because a mentor told me the only way to be accurate is to always shoot the same load you intended to use hunting. I think now it's more about making my wrists last....