IMO...
As someone who picks up his own new .44 Tracker tomorrow for Alaska I will tell you it is NOT a first, best, choice for hunting. Get a bigger, heavier, frame gun than the 34 oz. 5 shot. It is basically a heavy barreled K-Frame designed around the .38/.357. The .44 Mag is fine for hunting medium game and a great choice for back-up on large, dangerous, game which is why I'm getting mine. If grizzly is your issue the Tracker will NOT handle Buffalo ammo. It WILL handle Federal Core Cast Vital Shock 300 gr. ammo which could end-up in the hind quarters with a head-on chest shot and go straight thru big bear from the side. It will go thru hair and hide, punch thru and shatter thick bone and penetrate deep into and through vital organs in one piece, undaunted. Good shooting is important and you will not want to practice too much or sport-shoot a Tracker in .44 Mag. Yes, u can use .44 Special but then why buy a .44 Mag? The .41 would be a better, and faster follow-up shooting, gun with significantly more power than a .357 (it is much closer to the .44 in power with better balistic coefficient).
Note: the 4" Tracker is NOT a 4" barreled revolver either. It is 3" barrel with an integral 1" ported barrel-shroud at the end. No-one here has ever seemed to realize and/or comment on that little tidbit that I've seen. If I had that much money to burn, play on words intended, I'd cut the last inch off and get the thing Magna-Ported...
Bottom line: as a compact-frame gun for big back-up protection for the price the Tracker is top-shelf and nothing else in the market compares to it as far as I'm concerned. If hunting is your primary use though, go up a couple of levels...
Alden