I had a long barrel 44 with plow handles and despised it. 44 specials are fine, and 357 is no big deal in the guns I have shot, but 44 mag seems to be the threshold at which recoil begins to exceed what is useful in a plow handle gun. I wouldn’t consider the gun without a bisley grip. As for the Hogues, I tried them on my 9” 44 and quickly went back to wood. They are ugly, but they are grippy as well. Drawing from a flapped holster was quite a chore and I didn’t feel comfortable trying to get the gun out quickly if a deer were in range, and as clumsy as that setup was I wouldn’t draw the gun once in the stand either for fear of dropping it. They shot well and were comfortable, but that’s a minor concession for making the gun hard to use for its intended purpose.