I've spent a fair amount of time on the handle end of the .460 S&W, which is in the same ballpark of power and recoil, as two friends have owned them. Either the .460 or .500 is overkill for anything in North America with the exception of the great bears, and then only in a situation where a charge or close encounter would necessitate the level of stopping power they provide. Their other calling card is their ability to maintain adequate levels of energy for clean kills at distances beyond where most handgun hunters are capable of reliably and consistently placing a killing shot, and as such they don't bring anything to the party that's needed by the vast majority of ethical handgun hunters. With that said, assuming this is a S&W X-frame gun, they're very well made, accurate, and more than capable of taking deer, black bear, and feral hogs, plus a sure ticket to giving fellow shooters a case of Range Envy. I've passed on a couple as they don't let me do anything that a properly-loaded .44 magnum will not, at least for anything I'm apt to see here on the right-hand side of the Mississippi, and the penalties in weight, purchase cost, shooting cost (unlike the .460, the .500 does not have relatively cheap or readily available understudy rounds that can be used in it, and .50 bullets are considerably more expensive than .45's--a factor for both purchased ammo and reloading), noise, blast, and recoil mean its downsides more than equal any upside. If the gun in question is a BFR or one of the few other revolvers that handle it, I don't have any first-hand experience in shooting them but from handling a few they're also very large and heavy--far more than the stoutest of .44 magnums.
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