I recently took my Taurus 4510 Judge to the local range to demo it's suitability as a home defense weapon ... using 2 sheets of the cheapest drywall I could buy and firing from a distance of maybe 18-20 feet, the lightest .410 load I used still penetrated the second sheet (#6 birdshot, 2 1/2"). Had I used 1/2" drywall, I think the result might have been different. Patterning was good and tight and didn't cause many collateral hits outside the silhouette target.
The ammo problem came to fore when I used some Russian .410 in 3" magnum loads. The manufacturer uses the trademark "Golden Bear". Cartridges are thin wall steel, brass plated and expand to fill the 45 Colt chamber to such an extent that it took some taps with a nylon hammer on the extractor to coax the empties out. I was shooting 97 grain sabot slugs and #4 buck. The ammo box plainly states that the ammo is designed for use in cylindrical weapons chambered for 3" .410, but I won't use it again.
Maybe the Golden Bear works fine in a .410 shotgun, but think twice before you use it in your Judge.
The ammo problem came to fore when I used some Russian .410 in 3" magnum loads. The manufacturer uses the trademark "Golden Bear". Cartridges are thin wall steel, brass plated and expand to fill the 45 Colt chamber to such an extent that it took some taps with a nylon hammer on the extractor to coax the empties out. I was shooting 97 grain sabot slugs and #4 buck. The ammo box plainly states that the ammo is designed for use in cylindrical weapons chambered for 3" .410, but I won't use it again.
Maybe the Golden Bear works fine in a .410 shotgun, but think twice before you use it in your Judge.