Your right about the other guns getting lonely. I haven't used a "modern" shotgun in years, once the ml'ing shotgun bug took a bite. Sure, I suffer against modern guns in a game of trap, with my old cyl. bores, but I don't when it comes to game. I will wait till they are a little closer, or be more conservative on what I call a shootable target. But another plus side to me, is the debris I leave behind when done hunting. I have no hulls that I missed to find and I have no plastic wads laying out in the field. I have even been told by a landowner how much he appreciates the "no litte" left over from a day of dove hunting. But, for an afternoon with the boys shooting trap, it is hard to fault the modern guns.