Sold-out 410 Shotshells
... was thinking they are paired with the many "Judge" and "Governor" revolvers which are also sold out.
Old men love those things! I found them lackluster
The 6” Taurus did really well with .45 Colts though. Huge gun! I kind of like that Governor that shoots .45 Colt and ACP, no need for crazy Casull. Not in that platform.
A guy shot a goat at HHC. Five times with that Winchester disc defense ammo! Had to borrow a .308 to finish it off. I’d not bet my life on it. More of a novelty. Fun though.
for a while Taurus was putting a note in with the gun
saying don't use it for self defense. Don't know if they still do or not. And the people buying them are in the 25 year old range, not us old guys. We know better.
Whoops, must be a Southern phenomena.
For a long time they were the talk of the Coffee Shops. Supposedly the ultimate snake gun. I pattered some and found the shot density on paper is awful. Usually less than 100 pellets even with smaller shot. You could throw a chicken through the pattern unscathed at 10 yds. How would that do for a big Cottonmouth farther than 20 ft.?
It sounds good but in practice my testing was not all that hot. My .510 GNR custom shotshells walked all over them with it's own 1/2 oz. payload, to reasonable snake distances. It was a fun idea, the .410 revolver, that does not perform as well as one would hope. With .45 Colt loads it does passable but is no target gun.
My .410/.45 Contender barrel with the "spin stopping choke" actually does work to about 30 yds.! I shot dove with it, and a very unlucky squirrel or two. The big Red Fox squirrels took more than one shot! They are tough, twice the size of our little Grays.
With your eyes you can’t even see
A cottonmouth at 20 feet unless he’s in the driveway! I’m thankful to see a snake a double hoe handle distance. I do remember you potting a a rattler that almost got Roman at about four feet with a full magazine of 45 acp.....although my memory is foggy....he was really dead after that
It was a .40 S&W 4013. Good gun
I traded it for a Browning Auto 5 Magnum then later sold it for $750. I did OK. That snake was a pile of coils, couldn't tell which end was which, so I just started in the middle. LOL I don't like killing Rattlers but I can't have them in my yard at night.
The kids sure have grown up haven't they.
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