I have some experience with the Judge pistol, and some may carry over to the carbine version. I found the .45 accuracy to be acceptable, maybe not great. (accuracy as compared to me myself shooting other .45 Colts) and I found the pistol barrel plus the rifling puts the pattern as BIG. Birdshot goes everywhere past about 10 feet, and the buckshot gets bigger than man sized after about 10 yards.
Also, cleaning burnt shotgun powder out of rifling is less fun than usual cleaning.
Although people love to dump on Taurus, I find the quality of the revolver to be fine.
