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Those are good looking shotguns, John.
The Matador 10 bore was a MUCH heavier gun at just over 9 pounds.
One thing about it, once you get it moving, there was no such thing as stopping your swing. Follow through was easy and automatic.
When I shoot birds, I blot them out. That is I swing from behind to past them on their flight path and slap the trigger when they are under the bead. This gives me an automatic lead of the correct distance, at any speed, any angle. Gone are the days of hold in front & try to figure out the correct sustained lead. Seems to me I read about that method in Greener's book, but might have been something Don Zutz wrote about.

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I've never really been good at the shotgun side of things - so how much lead do you normally use?
I know speed of the bird flying & distance will have a huge bearing on things, but clays get me jiggered!