They make a personal defense round just for the judge that is a short-range defense shell that is loaded with three metal discs and 12 BB size pellets. This round will blow a watermelon to pieces at 10 yards, where as your garden variety handgun load will pass right through a watermelon clean in and out. The Judge with the Winchester PDX1 ammo will stop a man inside a house. Being a handgun, the Judge is much easier to wield in a house than a long barrel shotgun and, being a multiple projectile load, gives you the security of getting a point and shoot hit in the dark. You can also buy a 000 buckshot load that has three pellets in it if you are more confident in your aim.
It may blow up a watermelon but when I can get a roughly 90% one shop stop percentage with garden variety 9MM HP rounds I’m not sure I see the advantage, especially considering the weight and handling characteristics of the gun.
Plus, the load your talking about is a specialty round - one specialty round. Which means it will be expensive if you intend to practice, assuming you can find it. I can go into any gun shop in America and will have multiple choices of effective 9mm loads that wont break the bank.
I guess will just disagree on this one.
Which round is that? I hadn’t heard of it. I do know about the new Federal .410 handgun round that seems to shoot better than the normal shotgun round, but the description you gave is a new one for me.