RE: Effect of too much nose weight
It's better than being tailheavy.
Did the guy have a camera in the back or something that he needed all that extra (almost 1 lb.) of ballast up front? That's quite a bit.
With that being said...all my non-performance aircraft (Ugly Sticks, 4- Stars)....are actually on the nose heavy side. I actually didn't even bother to balance my 4 Star. It's nose heavy....but not enough for me to care.
(I guess I'm a bad example)