I was watching a show on the ESPN Outdoors not to long ago and some guy was hunting Moose with the 500 SW, he got within range and squeezed off his shot and the round in the neighboring chamber went off as well, could not believe they showed that on TV! With the LARGE pistols in mind my cousine has the Freedom Arms (I think) in the 5 shot 45/70,,,,,,,,,,,They also make a 444 Marlin model! I shoot the 444 in the rifle and could not even imagine the recoil that could be generated in the handgun. And they say the 45/70 is worse yet. That does not even sound like fun to me.