I would think that the eight bore would be ideal for the type of pheasant hunts we used to have in the old days, specifically for the "blockers." Twenty of us would walk through stubble or CRP, armed, and with maybe a couple of labs running up and down the line. Facing us at a road or mow-strip would be the blockers. Their job was to keep the birds from running out the end, shoot the fliers, and pressure the birds back into the walkers. The lead on the birds would be as much as twenty feet, mentally measured by multiplying the 2-1/2 foot length of the bird. The old men usually blocked and the young men usually walked.
Fun times.
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