You both forgot that the Judge can also fire
flares. So in 5 shots you can hit someone with bird shot, buck shot, roundball, hollowpoint, and then set them on fire. Personally I can't think of a better way of being simultaneously over and underprepared for every possible situation, including RPing against mooks with batshit immunities.
It's like a store-brand wine tasting of ways to fuck someone up, all you need to do is find some way to integrate a tazer and you can call "BINGO!".