Hello All,

I was just looking at the new Raging Judge 454/410 revolver and started thinking (I know,it was painful) What could you do to take full advantage of the long cylinder???

I was thinking about a rechamber for 460 S&W and seat the bullets out long to take advantage of the space.

What do you guys think?

John

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Originally posted by Phatman:
Hello All,

I was just looking at the new Raging Judge 454/410 revolver and started thinking (I know,it was painful) What could you do to take full advantage of the long cylinder???

I was thinking about a rechamber for 460 S&W and seat the bullets out long to take advantage of the space.

What do you guys think?

John

I think it would come apart.

And if it didn't come apart, it would be hell to shoot in such a smallish package (obviously this depends on the load).

Yep, I looked up the pressure difference between the 454 and the 460. The 460 has about 10% more.
Still it is an interesting handgun in a wildcatting stand point. With all the cylinder room and strong construction, although its not strong enough for the 460. That Smith&Wesson handles more pressure than my bolt action rifle,amazing really.

John

TO MY WAY OF THINKING IT IS A GIMMICK, ALBIET A SUCCESSFUL ONE FOR TAURUS. I CAN THINK OF NO PRACTICAL PURPOSE FOR ONE EXCEPT AS A CAR GUN OR ONE ON THE NIGHTSTAND.

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Originally posted by billinthewild:
TO MY WAY OF THINKING IT IS A GIMMICK, ALBIET A SUCCESSFUL ONE FOR TAURUS. I CAN THINK OF NO PRACTICAL PURPOSE FOR ONE EXCEPT AS A CAR GUN OR ONE ON THE NIGHTSTAND.

A 410 wheel gun would be the ticket for those who have to deal with a lot of snakes.

John

Also it would be a good gun for those that hunt in bear country, but want to shoot and eat grouse, ptarmargin, or hunt pigs where squirrel and rabbits "live.

My wife and I carry S&W 44 Mags with Speer shotshells for just the above reasons...

What about 410 slugs?

WHY POST IN ALL CAPS, IT IS shouting.

Bill, if you don't understand it, why call it a gimmick? You even said its probably a good self defense weapon.

A better gun could be a 6" raging whatever with a 460 sw 5 shot TIGHT throat and cone cyclinder, about 45-50 oz UNPORTED, stainless, adjustable sights, using the SW round butt frame, so one could use the x500 tamers on it... i would, of course, load it down to 45lc!

We used to have a little .410 single shot called the "Snake Charmer". At the time, I was a young boy and my dad and I fished in the swamp/marsh areas a bunch. He got it for killing snakes oddly enough. The one thing that strikes me about the short barrel shotgun concept is the opening of the pattern. This baby shot a very wide pattern in just 10 ft or so. It would have been fairly useless at any distance at all, but for killing snakes up close, or rabbits and such, it was a handy little gun.

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What type of pattern do they produce? How accurate are they with the 45 Colt round? With the bullet lossely bumping down the long over sized chamber couldn't be inducive to accuracy I would not think

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Originally posted by jwp475:
What type of pattern do they produce? How accurate are they with the 45 Colt round? With the bullet lossely bumping down the long over sized chamber couldn't be inducive to accuracy I would not think

My exact thoughts........

A 16" barrel and a shoulder stock attachment could make it interesting.

Longer barrel and larger case can bring down the pressures and up performance.

But if you wanted to do that the BFR makes more sense.