I have shot one with a 5 inch barrel---it is stout as to recoil but it is not overbearing--considerable more however than the 44 mag or anything else in that category..

Of the larger commercially loaded handguns for hunting--you have chosen one of the best.. read an aricle where the author put on a scope and had taken more than one elk with it--one shot kills actually a bit over 200 yards..or about 184 meters for you...

Good luck and let us know how it works out..

What are you going to use it for??

Ripp