Monstrous Power-Packing Revolvers

http://www.trendhunter.com ^ | Published: Feb 1, 2011

[virgil283]

"This monstrous revolver known as the Raging Judge will have most people shaking in their boots. With a 6.5-inch barrel, high visibility optic fiber sight, a grip-reducing recoil and the ability to fire 28GA shotgun shells, this gun is definitely hardcore. So if you want to blast zombies away and shout all sorts of 80s action movie one-liners, the Raging Judge should help you do it. "

[Tijeras_Slim]

.56-50 Spencer would work. They even make it for Cowboy Action. The price isn’t for the faint at heart.

[Yosemitest]

Looks like a 5 shot 3 inch .410 shotgun revolver.

[UCANSEE2]

It’s okay as long as it’s not an assault pistol.

[yarddog]

Wasn’t the Spencer a rimfire? I am getting to the age where my memory is not the best.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Yes, but when the Spencer was revived due to “Unforgiven” and Cowboy Action shooting several companies started making ammo. Making it centerfire so it could be reloaded made sense.

[Riley]

It was easy to tell in the video who was going to get hurt and who wasn’t. A couple of shooters knew to let the whole body take the recoil; most didn’t. The cringeworthy ones were those who had a weak, limp-wristed grip on that brute with no experience in evidence.

[UCANSEE2]

So, Taurus will just have to put it out in their revolving carbine (shotgun?) version.

That reminds me.

[count-your-change]

If that happens a person could down size to a fifty cal. pistol.

[Yosemitest]

That's a very tiny woman.
Compare it to the LeMat Revolver.

LeMat originally chambered his pistol for .40 (or .42) caliber revolver bullets, with a .60 (20 gauge) smooth-bore barrel,
and had a jointed ramrod (mounted on the right-hand side of the frame), which was used to load both barrels.
Later, during the American Civil War, a lighter .35-caliber pistol with a .55 caliber (28-gauge) smooth bore barrel was produced,
but as these were non-standard ammunition sizes (.36 or .44 caliber were most common for contemporary revolvers) LeMat owners had to cast their own bullets (as opposed to being issued them from general military stores.)
The final models of the LeMat were produced in .36 or .44 caliber in response to these criticisms,
but too few of them managed to get past the Union blockade of the South during the Civil War to be of any real use.

[yarddog]

So the reproductions are centerfire?

Makes sense, like you said rimfire would be very difficult to reload. I guess it would be just about impossible.

[JSteff]

Well that is stupid of anyone who thinks they will stop a charging and/or angry bear with any gun is just stupid. Statistics do not support that....

However, the rate is 100% with bear spray.

Grizzlies, polar bears, black bears, brown bears, etc all have been stopped with bear spray.
Failure rate of zero.
Best of all it is far less expensive than fire arms.... does not have to be cleaned or stored in a safe between being shot.
Best $30 anyone can spend for security in the wild or your home.

Now that is not to say guns are stupid or not needed and we should be allowed to own and use them just cause it is OUR RIGHT..... just read the constitution... but for protection against bears they are not the best thing.

Bear spray is. Bear spray will stop all the other nasties in the wild too.
However, I don't know if it has been tested on Zombies so you may need a gun for them.

[Recompennation]

Choot’em

[SkyDancer]

Looks too big to be taken for real. Then you get shot with one.

[Tijeras_Slim]

From Cimarron Arms, about $1800. Also available in .45 Colt (not an original caliber, but it does make it more sensible for the Cowboy game)

[yarddog]

There are plenty of guns which will stop a charging bear assuming a hit in the right spot.

I personally think I would want a .50 cal. machine gun and even that might seem light if one were really charging me.

[Lee N. Field]

and the ability to fire 28GA shotgun shells

A quick not Google search finds a reference that tells me that 28 gauge is .55 inches. The owner will run afoul of either having a short barrel shotgun, or cartridge firing gun of greater than .50 caliber (AOW? DD?). ---> Class III, with all the accompanying imperial entanglements.

[IrishPennant]

Meh...I've seen bigger...

[VeniVidiVici]

Some people do things just because they can.

Yup. Because it's fun. Show me a 50BMG pistol and I'll buy it.

I may only shoot it once, but it'll put a smile on my face :)

[elkfersupper]

Meh, I have a Thompson Contender in .45-70.

16" barrel, single shot, but it will send a round all the way through almost any part of any pickup.

[Yo-Yo]

2. ATF said no. Taurus got away with the Judge because they claim it’s a 45 long colt pistol (with rifling and everything) There isn’t a 28 guage pistol round for Taurus to claim this is a pistol.

No, The ATF said no because a 28 gauge shotgun shell has a diameter of .55", and anything over 1/2" in diameter is considered a destructive device, unless the Attorney General declares the firearm is a shotgun with a sporting purpose.

The Judge, the Govenor, and any other .410 shot pistol is under 1/2" in diameter so it is not considered a destructive device.

The reason the handguns must have rifled barrels is because any smoothbore must have a minimum barrel length of 18" otherwise it is considered a short barreled shotgun and must be registered with the ATF and have the $200 tax stamp.