An interesting thing to note is that in spite of the half inch thick butt pad? It will completely blacken your shoulder if you happen to be firing, say, 3" nitro-mag rounds. Which was certainly not the load my brothers swapped out for my first experience with mine, when I was supposed to be firing standard squirrel shot, no, whatever might give you that impression?

And if you thing that's bad? My younger brother has a nearly identical one. Except it's four inches shorter, and consequently lighter.

EDIT: ...well, I WAS going to include a link to a pic of the gun in question, but for some reason I can't get the link forum code to work.