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Quote: "Taurus pretty much markets this gun as a self defense gun."

Yes, at least they did initially. And made some of us rather angry with their photos of the birdshot patterns on human shaped targets. Informed "gun people" know that bird shot is for birds.

But there are a large number of uninformed people out there who bought the Judge based upon those ads and to this day do not know that their #6 birdshot, even at pretty close range, can just make a very nasty surface wound - and their assailants very, very angry.

To their credit, Federal, however has developled some specific buckshot loads that pattern very well out of The Judges, at least at typical self defense distance. Our testing indicates typically all four pellets in less than 4" at 7 yards.