Image credit
- Title
- File:Taurus Judge (transparent background).jpg
- Author
- U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
- Licence
- Public domain
- Source
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taurus_Judge_(transparent_background).jpg
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How Muzzle energy is calculated
E = ½ · m · v²
Not calculated: m has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
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How Muzzle velocity is calculated
no sourced velocity for this pairing
Not calculated: muzzle velocity has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
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How Loaded mass is calculated
m_loaded = m_empty + m_magazine + n · m_cartridge
Not calculated: m_magazine has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- One magazine, filled to the stated capacity. Spare magazines, optics, slings and lights are the owner’s, not the arm’s.
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How Free recoil is calculated
E_recoil = ½ · m_firearm · v_recoil²
Not calculated: v_recoil has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- Propellant gas momentum is excluded: ARMAG does not record charge weights. This is therefore a lower bound on the real free recoil, consistent between entries but smaller than a figure that includes the gas term.
- Free recoil: the arm is unrestrained. Stock design, muzzle devices, stance and shooter mass are not modelled, because none of them is a property of the arm.
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How Capacity is calculated
as published for the primary chambering
Inputs
- capacity5estimatedFrom Wikipedia's lead sentence, uncited there: a five-shot cylinder. Larger-frame Judge variants have used 6- or 7-round cylinders.
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Derived figures
Computed from the sourced values above. Open ƒ on any figure for the formula, its inputs, and the assumptions it makes.
How Momentum is calculated
p = m · v
Not calculated: m has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
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How Sectional density is calculated
SD = mass(gr) / (7000 · diameter(in)²)
Not calculated: mass has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- Reported in the conventional lb/in² so it is directly comparable with published figures.
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How Power factor is calculated
PF = mass(gr) · velocity(fps) / 1000
Not calculated: mass has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- A competition classification defined by the IPSC and USPSA rulebooks, stated in their units. It describes a scoring category, not an effect.
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How Magazine dump is calculated
t = (n − 1) / (rpm / 60)
Not calculated: rpm has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- Cyclic rate held for the whole magazine, no stoppages, trigger held down. A theoretical figure for comparing mechanisms, not a measured one.
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How Sight error at 1 mm is calculated
θ = atan(misalignment / sight radius)
Not calculated: sight radius has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- Shows what a stated aiming error costs. The misalignment is the reader’s figure; the site does not claim how well anyone aims.
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Specifications
Every row here is generated from the schema, so a figure recorded on this entry cannot be missing from the table, and the same rows, read the same way, are what the comparison shows.
Identity
- Type
- Revolver
- Action
- Revolver action
- Fire modes
- Single shot
- Operating system
- Manually operated
- Feed
- Designed in
- Brazil
- Produced in
- Introduced
- 2006
- Production
- 2006–present
Dimensions and mass
- Mass, empty
- 0.822 kg1.812 lbestimated
From the Wikipedia infobox, uncited there (29 oz), the standard steel 3-inch-barrel model. An alloy-framed 'Ultra-Lite' version and other barrel lengths weigh differently and are not separately recorded here.
- Magazine, empty
- not recorded
- Length
- 191 mm7.520 inestimated
From the Wikipedia infobox, uncited there (7.5 in).
- Length, folded
- not recorded
- Width
- 39 mm1.535 inestimated
From the Wikipedia infobox, uncited there (1.531 in).
- Height
- 137 mm5.394 inestimated
From the Wikipedia infobox, uncited there (5.394 in).
- Barrel length
- 76 mm2.992 inestimated
From the Wikipedia infobox, uncited there (3 in). Taurus has also offered 4-inch and 6.5-inch barrels on this platform.
Sights and rifling
- Sight radius
- not recorded
- Sight height over bore
- not recorded
- Rifling twist
- not recorded
- Twist direction
- not recorded
- Grooves
- not recorded
- Sight graduation
- not recorded
Operation
- Cyclic rate
- not recorded
- Trigger pull
- not recorded
- Effective range
- not recorded
- Units produced
- not recorded
- Launch price
- not recorded
Scale
A to-scale outline against family siblings. The dimensions are sourced; the shape is a representative outline for the type, and says so.
- Taurus Judge191 mm7.520 in
Representative outline: the dimensions are sourced, the shape is not. Overall length, and barrel length where recorded, are drawn from this entry's own figures; the profile is a generic one for the firearm type and says nothing about this arm's actual contours.
Gallery
Image credit
- Title
- File:Taurus Public Defender.jpg
- Author
- Harvey Henkelmann(attribution required)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Source
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taurus_Public_Defender.jpg
Detail
The Taurus Judge is a five-shot double-action revolver, introduced in 2006 as a derivative of the existing Taurus Tracker frame, built to fire .45 Colt cartridges and .410 bore shotshells from the same cylinder without a barrel or cylinder swap. Taurus gave it its name after learning that judges in high-crime parts of Miami were buying the revolver for use in their own courtrooms; the company then renamed the model from 4410 to 4510, a number built from the two chamberings it fires (.45 Colt, .410).
Firing two very different kinds of ammunition from one barrel meant a compromise in the rifling: Taurus cut it shallower than is typical for a handgun, trading some of the spin a single .45 Colt projectile would otherwise get for less rapid dispersal of shot fired from a .410 shell.
Taurus later introduced the Public Defender series on the smaller Model 85 frame as a concealed-carry variant with the same five-round, dual-chambering cylinder, and the Raging Judge, a larger revolver chambered additionally for .454 Casull that is a separate product rather than a configuration of this one. A short-lived Raging Judge XXVIII prototype chambered for 28-gauge shotshells was shown in 2011 but does not appear to have reached production.
No maker specification sheet independent of Wikipedia’s uncited infobox was found, so the mass, dimensions and barrel length recorded here are estimated rather than verified; a lighter alloy-framed “Ultra-Lite” version and longer 4-inch and 6.5-inch barrels exist but are not separately recorded. Every Judge will also fire the shorter .45 Schofield from its .45 Colt chamber; that is a property of the two cartridges rather than a chambering Taurus built the revolver for, so it is not listed as one.
References
This entry's own bibliography. Every citation key on this page resolves into this list.
- Taurus Judge · Wikipedia · 1373647128 · read 2026-09-24 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Last verified 2026-09-24 · review status: agent-populated