I just shoot factory loads out of my Taurus, but it seemed like the recoil from the long barreled smiths was still too harsh, and I figured as similarly as the Ruger configuration is to the smith barrel wise, it'd be about the same. I do admit I haven't shot the Ruger, to be fair. I speculated that the full lug barrel on the Taurus would tame that down quite a bit. I was right. Seems like the Taurus' recoil is more straight back and more manageable than the Smith was.
