I would say the general comment here is the more you use a crutch, the less overall proficient you will be. Fairly simple actually.
In other words we call it cross training. Use what you want, but what I see agrees, most these days are so used to some fancier rest they can't do it without it.
That is a sad situation.
When I was young I couldn't do without it. Took a few years of learning on my own and finally finding some help. God knows our eyes were opened when we were invited into high-power service rifle shooting.
Cross train. IT helps. Trust me. I"ve had game walk away from folks because all they knew was set up the rest for me... close game..... In the end its not my problem but it bothers me.
its why I try to have my clients continually dry fire on game too. But OMG we can't dry fire.. It will break our 10,000 dollar rifle. Nope. It. Won't.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
