offroad,
I know the 329 is nice and light.... Would be really nice to backpack with. I have an SP101 23 oz all steel 357 and I don't enjoy it with standard loads.... (I shoot it with handloaded reduced 357s)

I will stick with a steel 44. I do plan on shooting it a fair amount. I need to be good enough with it, to use it for hunting, so I will shoot a couple hundred a year. I really do not want to do that with a scandium 44.

CKF,
what do you mean the mountain gun did not shoot heavy bullets well? Was it inaccurate? Or too much recoil? How heavy could you go and still have it do well?

Thanks for the input,
HH