I've been looking for a bad-ass all around wheelgun for the outdoors to supplement my wampy but treasured WWII S&W Victory .38 I got from my grandfather. This might be just the ticket.
Makes a delightful big bang, I bought one a few weeks ago to celebrate the DC ruling. :)
As the 2006 catalog describes it: "It becomes one of those 'I really need that gun.'...not a bad snake gun, bird dog training gun and handy to have around for other pesky varmints."
The old Thompson Arms single shot frame mounted with a 45 long colt chamber and twelve inch barrel will shoot the 410 shot shell also; IIRC.
Magnum Research has chambered one of their BFR revolvers for these loads for some time:
http://www.magnumresearch.com/Expand.asp?ProductCode=BFR45LC-410
Water Moccasins are tough hombres without much in the way of fear. My buddy and I were out hunting and had pulled over to look at an interesting new spot. We had a large aerial photo spread out on the hood of his idling truck and this Moccasin pokes his head out of the tall grass, see us, and heads right toward us. He was probably interested in the ground vibrations of the truck because as we stepped back in, curious to watch him, he came right up and sniffed the tires while I hung out the window just above him. Since we really weren't going to be in that area anyway we just let him go about his business.
That was enjoyable compared to the time I had one swim by as I was chest deep in a small swampy pond I had to cross. As a teenager I was helping my old man do some surveys of a large piece a land. He and his Iranian partner, Mo, owned a civil engineering company and had just parted ways with the survey guys so they were left to do some of the stuff themselves.
Anyway, Mo and I were short cutting across this small swampy pond, and I saw a big cottonmouth swimming on the surface, somewhat parallel, but angling in toward where our foreward progress was taking us. Mo was deathly afraid of snakes, he had even talked to a shrink as a young man back in Iran, so that was a big concern of mine - I didn't want him flipping out and attracting the snake over to us. I made up some stupid comment about the opposite shoreline and starting pointing at things to keep him from noticing the snake.
Thankfully, the snake just kept on his pace and swam off ahead of us. About an hour later when we regrouped with my old man, I told them what had happened. Mo was awful appreciative of the distraction and said that he would've probably flipped his lid at the sight of a large poisonous snake so close by.
So what happens when some chucklehead stuffs some .454 Casul or .460 Smiff and Weston rounds in this thing?
I pray it's a gangsta.
I hope Taurus has been pretty clear about ammo in their docs.
Well, he did keep it tucked in his waistband, but his junk wasn't what suffered for it. About three months after he bought the gun he was driving down a back trail in the woods and a grouse popped its head up by the side of the road. My uncle grabbed for his pistol, got it caught on his belt, and accidentally pulled the trigger.
Bam! He blasted his fuel tank with a load of birdshot, shooting about a dozen holes in it. Gas spilled all over the place and my uncle was racing at top speed, smoke flowing off of the engine from the gas, back to the cabin before he was stuck pushing his ATV back.
By joint consensus, his brothers decided that he was a dumbass, and after he got his tank replaced the old one became a decoration for the wall of the cabin.
Oh yeah! I'm interested in this as a personal side arm for backup.
It should fit quite nicely in an ankle holster and if I have to go to this in extermis I want the added capabilities that the .410 provides for unconventional rounds.
Blammo Ammo rules!
Mega-bang self-ping!!
I picked one this Saturday.
Buy me one.
Only $468.80!
Taurus aModel 45/410 Tracker Revolver 2441069T, 410 GA / 45 Long Colt, 6 1/2", Ribber Grip Overlay Grip, Matte Stainless Finish, 5 Rd Stock # [STK_SS17254]