Hey, most of the guys who have ejectors on a gun hold a hand over them to keep them from ejecting. A lot of them watch the ejected hulls fly, and then turn around, bend over, and pick them up.
Damn if I get it, but, whatever floats your boat.
Ever the helpful guy, let me see if I can help you "get it", for a few situations.
Dove shooting. Doves coming to feed in the fields do so in flurries, often. You may sit for an hour or two, with very little action, then all of a sudden "it's on". Droves of birds everywhere, coming from all directions. The limit is 15 per day. Semi automatics are favored these days, but a few of us prefer the old way, two shell guns. It is much, much easier to allow the shells to eject, reload quickly so as to take full advantage of the flights available before they are gone. When the birds are gone, or the host calls an end to the shoot so the remaining birds can feed, you have plenty time to pick up empties.
Duck hunting in a blind. Same deal, different locale and surroundings. Semi automatics rule again, but again many of us like the two shot guns. Let 'em eject onto the blind floor, or the boat deck, keep shooting while you can, pick 'em up later. No big deal. It saves time while the birds are in the air.
Clays shooting. Catching the two hulls in your hand as they eject is light years ahead of digging them out with your fingers as they extract. When you are shooting a tournament, or even a fun round with your buddies, and there are maybe six shooters on your squad, there are other squads behind you. You can be sure that six shooters pulling out shells that are extracted, as opposed to letting them eject and either catching them to put in your emptied pouch or just letting them hit the deck (hey, the range owners expect to have to pick up hulls ..... they have magnets on sticks to do so ..... do automatic and pump shooters pick up their hulls on a sporting range? No.) will slow things down to the point that squads will be backed up and waiting. Not good.
There is a vocal percentage on this and other chat forums who apparently love the moribund chore of pulling empties out of their chambers, and attempt to take the "high road" and play the littering card on those who prefer ejectors. I've not read where you have ever done that, Ted, but a great many of your compadres here have, and do. That's a shame, when no one takes on the automatic and pump shooters for the same thing. I'll bet that a great many more ejector doublegun shooters police their empties than automatic or pump shooters.
I like ejectors, and find little interest in doubleguns that don't have them.
I get it, and they're one of the niceties that "float my boat".
All my best, SRH
