ok, just when i thought i'd heard of 'em all, i proved there is another way to go home early.
easy stage, 12 plates with shotgun, dump unloaded shotgun in barrel (more on that later), draw handgun and proceed forward to shoot 8 paper with pistol. the shotgun needed to be completely empty since you were going downrange of the abandonment barrel. IAC, i hit the plates one for one, burn the last shell where the last plate once was, dump the shotgun, grab pistol and hose the paper. ULASC, go back to shotgun and it ain't empty. wtf? yep, last round fired, bolt locked back and empty hull is still on lifter. dairy queen, here i come. so, unloaded means not even a spent shell in the gun. never thought of it but it made sense to me. but from now on i will take that extra second and make sure that last spent round is no where in the vacinity. live and learn.