"Well balanced" is a term that has no single definition to fit everyone, certainly not a mechanical definition. Individually, it means the weight is well distributed to suit the job at hand. I have known upland shooters who really like a very butt heavy gun and others most comfortable a tad heavy forward. And now with the rush for longer barrels the sporting clay bunch really like a gun with a lot of barrel momentum. None of them are in error with their preferences, just different people with different applications.
