With the arrival of the .44 Mag. in the 1950s—a souped-up, longer-cased variation of the .44 Spl.—production of guns chambered specifically for .44 Spl. tapered off.

In 2019, Taurus Intl. Mfg. Inc. introduced a successful series of big-bore double-action revolvers dubbed the Raging Hunters (RH). Initially chambered in .357 Mag. and .44 Mag., that evolution of ...