“Of course the gun should be touching his cheek, we all know that.”
Apparently, we don’t all know that. Check out the many replies where folks say something like the recoil would bust up his cheek. All I’m saying is, to me, it looks like someone, in this case the Bam’ster, shooting a shotgun.
With a good spot weld and proper wing shooting your cheek will necessarily be on the stoc or you will shoot high. And it will bust up your cheek after a good shooting day in the field. Heck I’ve had good dove weekends that have produce bruised cheeks. That is what is so telling about the cheek part of the photo.... No movement.
This is of course above and beyond the smoke and vents. To me it looks like he was holding the gun but was not firing it. The geniuses in DC used the smoke to get the firing part to “look” real