so i have a judge with a 3" barrel and 3" chamber and laser grips. also just picked up a box of the new the new federal 3" .410 handgun buckshot loads.

i was thinking of having this be my wife's house gun since I'm gone 2 nights a week.

my question is how well do you think the buckshot will be at stopping a bad guy? do you think they deliever enough power with on shot to put someone down?

I'd like to know the energy of the pellets are. 9 pellets of 4 buck. i haven't shot it yet but i'd think that at 20 feet the pellets would be spread a bit and not all hit the target.