Consider a Ruger Redhawk with 4-5" bbl. They too have smallish and roundish grips, so whi!e not beautiful a set of Hogues or Pachmyar grips improves pointability and comfort. Redhawks are heavy though.
S&W 629 4-5" bbl models are nice to shoot.
Marlin 1894 44 magnums have oversized groove diameter barrels at 0.4315". SAAMI stupidly have two specs for barrels: pistol barre!s are smaller at 0.429" . rifles have a larger SAAMI barrel groove spec of 0.431"+.. That larger diameter spec for rifles contributes to less-than-desired accuracy of the Marlin. A 0.429" jacketed bullet in a 0 .4315" groove diameter Marlin barrel is not a good recipe for accuracy. I've had two Marlin 44 mags ( one a micro-groove, the other a "Ballard" rifled carbine.). The Ballard rifle only started to shoot decently when I sized my NOE 432-265 cast bullet to 0.433" (essentially shot " as cast ", but lubed). Groove diameter was indeed 0.4315" on the Ballard rifled gun. Sold them both years ago because of inadequate accuracy.
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