Taurus built "The Judge" as a gun for both compactness and power. The gun holds five rounds of either .45 Long Colt rounds or .410 Bore shotgun shells. Both are the same dimension and fit the cylinder the same (similar to .38 Special to .357 Magnum). This allows the stopping power of a .45 LC to stop a charging animal or the scattering capability of a 410 round to kill a snake. In most cases for films, .45 LC blanks are used.
