I had the older Super Black Hawk single action back in the late 70's.It was a 44 Mag. with 7 1/2' barrel I had a western style Bianchi leather holster in left hand and with the holster and gun fully loaded with 240 grain hollowpoints that sucker weighted a ton!Blowed a 6 in. pine tree in half. I filled a 55 gal. drum with water and shot it from about 20 yd. The water just exploded out the top and the slug and fragments split the back out of the drum. A human is made up of mostly water. Think about it!Hank Williams Jr. has a Ruger logo on his album covers. Good enough for him, good enough for me!!Ruger makes a quality firearm at a good price!