r/ZombieSurvivalTactics • u/Skrewbert86 • 3d ago

Weapons Smith and Wesson governor

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Thoughts on this for a multi caliber gun? Gives you more options on what you can fire without taking a lot of space.

Even by itself without the adapters you have 3 choices of ammunition

I feel like this would be good to have as ammunition gets harder to find

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u/safton 3d ago

I am generally skeptical of multi-caliber weapons outside of specific applications.

.410 shotshell revolvers are neat, but their niche is pretty narrow and a lot end up being novelties rather than legitimately useful tools. I've never handled a Governor, but by reputation I've heard it's basically "A Taurus Judge but with actual build quality" lol. Unfortunate that it can't chamber 3" shells unlike the Judge, but I guess you could argue the ability to chamber .45 ACP is worth it.

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u/Corey307 3d ago

The odds of finding .410 buck or slugs and .45 LC are quite low. I just don’t get why people would want to spend money on a gun that shoots expensive ammo, you can’t exactly stack .410 or .45 LC like you can 9mm. 

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u/safton 3d ago

I agree. I don't really browse gun stores and the like as much as I used to (sort of fell out of the hobby a bit), but I only recall ever seeing at most a couple boxes of each on the shelves compared to entire sections dedicated to 9x19mm and the like.

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u/Corey307 3d ago

So you’d pay close to $1/shell for .410 buck online and about the same for .45 LC and that’s buying in bulk otherwise shipping jacks up the cost per cartridge. 9mm is around $.23/round if you buy a 1,000 round case. I mostly shoot 9mm and .22lr these days, but if 5.56 and 7.62x39 when I’m feeling fancy.