Chief, If nothing else, it's an expensive hobby.
$15.00/rd of Skeet to shoot RST's in a vintage firearm.
$90.00/100 to shoot clays with them.

2500rd/mos is about $550.00 plus range fees for OTC Herter's Low re-coil 1050 fps cartridges. Roughly $1,000.00/mos. Could you reload 10 cases/mos and save some? Sure, but that's all kinds of work at the press.

There aren't many retirees that I run into running that many rounds through anything vintage.

I suppose there might be someone, but then the finishes on the guns wear off as well. They get progressively looser, then things start breaking and binding.

So, from my experience, most internet accounts of use are... ambitious.

Out there doing it best I can.