All steel Taurus revolvers are as reliable and accurate as you can ask for. No, that's not true for the rest of their fleet, but the big steel wheel guns do what they're supposed to.

I have a bull, bought and sold a tracker 44, probably shouldn't have done so, but I made money on the deal. You are right, considerably lighter, which has its ups and downs. As a hunting wheelgun, it's great. Light for carry, but heavy enough to soak up the recoil of hunting loads for a few shots in the field. I'm certain that if I found myself in a situation where 5 rounds of .44mag wasn't enough, then 6 wouldn't be either. Neither are my first choice as a big bear defense gun, but 5 vs 6 is just trivial, and when you're talking bruins instead of browns, the tracker is plenty of medicine. I liked the balance of the tracker better, maybe only because I'm so used to my tracker 17?