I am a very large person with XXL hands, so the size, weight, recoil, etc won't be a problem for me. I hope to take it out to the range this weekend. I'm not sure if I have any 44 specials laying around. If so, I'll shoot a few cylinders of those to "warm up", and then start in with the magnums. If not, it'll just be magnums from the get-go. I have a box of hunting ones from... Winchester, I think? They didn't bother me with the 6" 629, so they should be NBD at all from this monster.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like my longer-barreled revolvers have less felt recoil than similar ones with shorter barrels. The shorter-barreled ones seem louder, too, but perhaps I'm just confused.