For those who want to have ejectors but need to trap the empties in their hand here's the scoop on an easy way to learn to do it. I did not even realize how I did it until recently, after years of catching them. Trick is, you don't push the top lever over with your thumb, as you ordinarily would, you use part of your palm to do it. Look at the palm of your hand, particularly at the meaty area under your thumb. Where that semicircular wrinkle line is, that forms when you rotate your thumb left and right, is where the top lever "catches" when I rotate it to open the gun. This places your thumb and fingers in a perfect position to catch the empties, if you need to. If you think it would pinch, or rub a blister, I've never had that problem, and catch all my empties at the big sporting clay shoots where I may shoot upwards of 200 rounds a day.
Don't do it in Cordoba, though. Bird boys won't like you for taking part of their job away.
