I used a W&C Scott pigeon gun for a couple of years for doves.
Behind a blind not really a bad thing, but doves are doves, you lose your interest in them and they move along.
Never one to use birds as live targets, and not intersted in the history of box birding the gun and I went different ways.
This subject would be batted around for days at SSM's site, never did I get the feeling anyone really shot in the ring.
They had a pigeon gun, so they were for the sport - I think!