Actually those folks might have years of experience shooting and reloading and know something you don't. Any normal sized revolver made by Smith,Ruger, ot even Taurus will also shoot reliably and work great too.
Then again, with the "expertise" shown in these posts they might JUST BE talking out of their rears, no matter how many years of "experience" they have.
"Normal sized revolver"? Like an N-framed Smith? Or an X-frame? Or a Ruger Super Redhawk?
What's that about? The Judge is no larger than an N-frame. What, exactly, does decades of re-loading experience have to do with shooting a .410 shotgun shell in a pistol?
Operators in the military Special Forces, or SWAT or HRT, or Secret Service Counter-Snipers burn through thousands of rounds per year to maintain their expertise, but re-load a grand total of zero rounds. Does that make a re-loader somehow more "experienced"?
Let's keep this in perspective. To understand what someone sees in a weapon like the Judge, you'll actually have to SHOOT ONE, yourself. While you may not agree with their assessment of the weapon system, and it's results, it's still their choice.
Many of us, myself included, need to keep reminding our opinion that it's just that, our opinion. Look at how many people had the same reasoning against the M16, and it's cartridge, or the Glock series.
The nicest part about having an opinion is, until we harden it into dogma/"fact", it can be changed without causing one any pain.
Any number of guns have lost barrels. Ruger, S&W in K,and X-frames, and even Freedom Arms all had barrel problems in the initial runs.
I own 14 Taurus handguns now. Some of them are approaching 30 years old. My experience with their warranty work was when they re-built, for free, a Model 85 CH that I shot loose with a steady diet of +P and +P+ ammo. It took 6 weeks. The rest of the revolvers and semi-autos have been trouble-free for thousands of rounds. According to many here, that would be statistically impossible
neener
. They would be wrong.
As I pointed out earlier, I've had much worse luck with much more expensive, and recommended, guns. If one should be expecting perfection from a $500 gun, then one should be expecting even more from a $1000 gun. Sadly, that's not true. Check with the armorers at your local PD that service Glock, Sig, HK, and Beretta. You'll find that they aren't sitting around all day, playing computer games. Most gunsmith's out there aren't repairing Tauruses, but they sure are busy with more expensive brands. Perhaps, if the warranty for other makers included "lifetime status", even when the gun was "out-of-production", at a single location, we'd have a better grasp of just what the status of QC really was.
Will penetrate a 1" pine board at 10 feet (and thats with a 2.5" shell). Would do wonders on some BG's face, or any non-legged snake you run into.
