. . . . I can completely cover a 4X8 sheet of plywood with a load of #9's at 15 yards. . . . . .quote]
IMHO, this wouldn't be a great thing in a defense gun.
The judge looks like a blast to me, but I want something a bit more precise.
I used to carry my Ruger .357 snubby with shot shells for snakes when walking into some remote areas to fish creeks, and did shoot one snake. After I shot it, I figured out it was not poisonous and probably didn't need to be shoot. But I was walking along a skinny path though fairly thick woods, and in an instance, there it was hanging from a tree about four feet from my head and looked like it had bad intentions. About 7 foot long. It dropped with one head shoot at about 6 feet