For once, I am in agreement with my 'friend" Murph Da Surf. That's what snap caps and masking tape were made for- granted, you won't get to test for pattern and POI/POA (as per Tom Roster's recent article in SS magazine) but you will know that the strikers work properly, and that the ejectors (if the shotgun is so equipped) work and are in time. What were the odds of two schmucks asking to test fire/shoot with live ammo the very same shotgun on a dealers' show table. Ass-tro-nomical!!

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..