I once won a Super X2 Sporting, at the NSCA GA State Sporting Championship. It had a red rubber coating over the entire buttstock and forend. I loaned it out to a friend for his wife to use, as I was already into O/Us. He kept it for about 10 years, during which time he divorced. One day it occurred to me I'd better see about getting it back, which I did. The red rubber had deteriorated into a sticky, gummy mess wherever hands had been on it in shooting. One day I decided to get rid of that mess with stripper, and found very plain wood, birch I think, underneath. I took it to a friend who is in the immersion graphic business to see what he could do for it. It now appears to be the fanciest burl walnut you ever saw, but with a funny reddish tinge. Much better looking than the old rubber mess. Had Phillip Crenwelge tune the trigger. It's a clay killing machine. Sometimes, when I'm shooting a charity event with soft targets, it gets the nod because of the choke tubes. Once shot a 100X100 with it at the GA Prison Wardens Shoot in Forsyth.
Go for it, Ted. There may be a princess hiding underneath that frog exterior.
