That's not a bad bench. I'm 5'10 and about 188 right now and bench maybe the same as you...might be a few pounds less since I haven't been lifting for a bunch of months again - I was lifting late last year, but then I did a pretty good job kicking my own ass in January (separated rib...
YouTube - Skeleton 1 ) and any kind of exercise was out of the question for a while...and then when I started healing up from that I started running rather than getting back to lifting for a while.
I can relate to an injury affecting your ability to hoist the boom stick. Bummer. Hope someday they can fix that up for ya.
By the same token...yeah, shooting a bunch of slugs would get painful really quick.
