Thank you brother Ted. I am not recoil sensitive but it hurt with 1 ounce. Great Pheasant gun I would think. The standing breach still has most of the case color so maybe 50 rounds through it. It was an auction buy and I did not know I was buying an essentially new gun. I need time to load 7/8 ounce and it will see some sporting. Pheasant in the fall hopefully. I would guess, somebody bought it, fired a few rounds, it hurt too much and went into the proverbial closet. It must have been alone in that closet because there are no marks on the wood.