Shooting right handed it wasn't shells into the face, just that it was very visible and easily distracting and it was noticeably dirty to the shooter due to the smoke and debris that comes out of the ejection port on fast fire (which was just so much fun) leaving the shooter's face dirty in no time compared to a gun with the port well out front in clean air...
It made serious practice less fun and also a possible demerit point in HD consideration...
But the drop down grips making it so much less defendable was the reason I chose other arms for that...
In a cramped area of small cruising yachts, I would reconsider and it might be the ideal shotgun for that... For a boat rifle, I wanted to try a "bullpup" configured BAR in .30-06
Brent