Thanks, good stuff! Don't hesitate to offer more suggestions.
That Pedersoli is choked Mod/Full. I'm wondering about that, forcing an over-shot card through a choke. I LOVE the paper wrapped shot idea! I might look for a cylinder bore shotgun. The paper idea might just keep a tight pattern out of a cylinder bore? I read on the other thread running on shotguns that varying the shot/powder charge ratio affects pattern, too. So much to learn when I finally get one. I think I'll be getting SOMEthing if my old house sells, got an offer, patiently waiting. I'll have a few bucks if it does and deserve a celebratory toy.
I stayed pretty traditional in my hunting rig, as I only duck hunted with mine. I tried upland game but without a dog it was too much to handle. I know of others who have used various containers to house their shot and powder.
I love duck hunting, but that's pretty well out unless I can find a gun that's tolerant to steel shot. Pedersoli warns against it and the chokes are too tight at any rate for steel. I plan to join a duck/goose/dove club next season, probably, and could use a front loader in that club from a blind. No blinds in the marsh where I have hunted last 30 years on public land and loading while standing knee deep in muck sounds tough.
I'll probably really only use it for some dove and for my walks out back in the woods, squirrel, rabbit, occasional dove in season, and a duck off the tank now and then in winter. I doubt I'd take the gun to my buddy's north of Waco. We hunt his farms every year opening of central zone and I often go through 4 or 5 boxes of ammo in a 3 day hunt. Action is fast up there and I'd look goofy reloading while the others are shooting at birds all around us. LOL I normally hunt up there with my little SxS 20 gauge Spartan. If the action is slower, though, I have no qualms about using a front loader and it'd add fun to the hunt, at least for ME.
Okay, any suggestions on other SxS shotguns I might think about besides the Pedersoli baring in mind the use I have for it?