Rossi Circuit Judge 45Colt/.410 carbine What price versatility?

Via Oleg Volk 

Taurus's Circuit Judge has been hailed by some as the ideal all-around shotgun and carbine. It is light, has a simple manual of arms - the same as most double action revolvers - and can fire either solid ball or shot. It's been marketed both for small game hunting and for personal defense. Attracted by the versatility, I got one and tested it with a variety of ammunition.

This carbine comes with an 18.5 "rifled barrel: it is primarily a pistol caliber carbine and only secondarily a shotgun. If you want to fire shot, the thread protector on the front of the muzzle should be removed and replaced with "de-spinning" choke which has coarse threads in reverse of the regular rifling. That mostly reverses the spin of the shot charge that would otherwise produce a donut-shaped pellet pattern. The transition is a bit abrupt but it appears to work reasonably well - provided the shot is in a cup wad as is the case with most modern shotshells. Firing .45 Colt cartridges with that choke in place is counterindicated by the instruction manual, so mixing shotshells and pistol ammunition in the same cylinder is not practical.

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