The .44 Special is one of those rounds that just defy explaination. In a world of bigger, faster master blasters, the special just keeps chugging along. The .44 Special, the .45 ACP and the .45 Colt are the basic rounds we keep coming back to.
Why? Because they work. They work without undo recoil or muzzle blast. They work because they are powerful enough for most of our handgun needs and we feel a connection to history when we use them.
The .44 Special is finding some new love as Ruger has chambered their Blackhawk and NV SA's in the round. Colt has reintroduced the .44 Spl Flattop and Smith has flirted off an on with a gun chambered in the round.
Not the most powerful of rounds and logic says just get a .44 Mag and shoot specials out of it, but there is just something about a SA in .44 Special.