Oh, don't tell me...

>I waited for Jim to finish what he was saying, agreed that it was a
>darn shame but what can you do, then asked, "Is... that a Rossi
>Circuit Judge?"
>
>Yeah. It was.

You UTTER LUCKY BULLER B*ST*RD! (Well, not that last, but it's part of the quote)

>And yes, that's what they call it.

Snrkt! Well, at least Taurus/Rossi has a sense of humor.

>The frame has the standard Taurus markings, plus the imprint of
>Rossi's US importer. Meanwhile, Rossi's own logo appears in two more
>discreet places: the little rubber cap on the bottom of the
>semi-pistol-grip part of the stock, and the (oddly luxurious for a
>.410 shotgun) buttpad.

Well, better than oddly luxurious than non-existant, even with .410 not exactly being 'brutalizing'.

>Well, almost. It also has one nice little feature that addresses the
>major drawback all revolver carbines have had since Time
>Immemorial—namely, the problem of the cylinder gap. Long-time Gun
>of the Week readers may recall that this is a notorious danger zone in
>revolving firearms, which is not that much of a problem in a
>handgun if you hold it right; but in a carbine it's a significant
>hazard to the shooter's support arm. In the old days of blackpowder
>revolver carbines, the usual fix was to hold it right up close to the
>trigger guard, under the frame, which was awkward as hell and kind of
>obviated the advantage of making it a carbine in the first place.
>
>Someone at either Taurus or Rossi (I'm guessing the latter, since they
>seem to have been responsible for all the other aspects of converting
>the Judge into a longarm) tackled the problem by adding little blast
>shields to the front.

OH lovely, and something that I think might be a good thing on ordinary revolvers, honestly, at least of the 'bone-crushing', as they're supposedly called, calibers(never did understand that...can't imagine that many bones stand up to any reasonable caliber round(reasonable, as in, 'not Kolibri or Lilliput')). I know several horror-stories of people essentially near-loosing thumbs when they use a modern 'wrap-around' type of grip, which is presumably habit from shooting autos.

>They're also in contrasting colors, which is nice; you can instantly
>tell if you've got them lined up in the wrong order. That sounds like
>a weird mistake to make, but if you're shooting in some haste (for
>instance, hunting birds), it could happen.

I have to agree that this DOES remind of Hopelessly Lost.

>Mine came with the turkey choke installed, but I
>don't plan on doing much turkey hunting, so I'll probably swap it for
>the thread protector.

Sounds nice, and so would I. I don't think there is any bird at all that I would go hunting with it.

>A little surprisingly for a used gun (people do seem to manage to lose
>this stuff with annoying regularity)

Things like, oh, MAGAZINES? As in Nova Floresca's fathers friend? :P

>even a little widget I eventually realized was a
>hammer extension. When I was a kid, my grandfather had one of those
>on an Ithaca Model 72 Saddlegun he had.
> When you put a scope on a hammer-fired gun like a '94, the back
>of the scope overhangs the hammer and makes it inaccessible to the
>thumb, so you need to add a little sideways attachment to the hammer
>to make it get-attable again.

Huh, wouldn't even have occurred to me, but yeah, logically...

>Well, OK, I traded the Um, What The for it, but let's face it,
>I got most of my personal value
>from that just talking about the shock of seeing what it was after I
>ordered it. I'm likely to have a much better actual ownership
>experience with the CJ.

As would I have, in your position, for just that very reason. If the Um, What The had been what you sort of THOUGHT it would be, that'd be different, but as it was? I'd be having a LOT more fun with the CJ, and it wouldn't have been a moment of thought.

...!
Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls!"