It is important to tailor the gun to your specific needs. Since you spent tall-cash for the PC .44 in the first place, now buy Crimson Trace rubberized laser grips for it, then go with Winchester Silvertips in .44 magnum, or Speer's "short-barrel" .44 magnum load and you will be on the money.

I too, qualified with a full power magnum recently, but in .41 magnum, and the Crimson Trace laser grips I used delivered a "thump" in the hand, rather than a "whack" (as if you were hit in the hand by a 2X4). You have to psych yourself up that this is some serious hardware and you must concentrate. Help yourself (subconsciously) as much as you can and then "physically" by reducing the shock to your hand by not only adapting yourself to your new gun, but also accepting new grips and a 3/4 power .44 magnum load and you will come out on top.

And remember what the bad guy said in Magnum Force when he saw Dirty Harry with his Model 29 at the rear of his building (when Dirty Harry acted as backup in serving an arrest warrant)....."That ain't no cops gun, Frank!"

It can be....if you work on it.

TAKJR