I'm intrigued by this statement. Would you care to expound on this a little more?
Well for instance, things that square range shooters often do, such as running minimal headspace, minimal shoulder setback, very hot loads, or jammed bullets... are often not going to fly if you subject them to field conditions during a typical northern hunting season.
Heavy rifles, large support structure, no suppressors, sighters are allowed and expected and often convertible, etc etc etc.
Thousands of rounds of bench/bellybench activities don't translate unilaterally to thousands of rounds of true field precision shooting in the elements.
This is one of the largest and most frequent mistakes that folks have made when they arrive here for training and struggle to find success. They are often following mentors that are not engaged in the discipline they are interested in participating in. Some information translates between disciplines nicely. Some does not.
So if someone wants to pursue PRS or NRL competition, they should be following the mantra of a competitor in that discipline.
If someone wants to do F-class, they should do likewise and find an F-class content creator to follow.
Aside from me, I don't know of another creator that is producing content specifically for the "benchrest accuracy and precision from a field rifle when hunting" type discipline, as a focus. So making a decision on who's system to adopt which is based on the discipline you intend to pursue, is very wise, and once you make that decision, follow it through to its completion. Trying to pick some things from everyone and expecting it to work is a fools errand.
The advice I give square range shooters under my mentorship is limited to concepts that cross over to square range with no ill effect, and the same can be true of some square range shooters. I know for a certainty that my methods work exceedingly well in F-class as they do for me in the field... given some of the folks under my mentorship are taking home podium finishes fairly regularly, at various levels. Though some of the advice given by accomplished square range shooters, such as what I mentioned above, do not as readily transfer to the field discipline.
Mistakes shooters make regularly:
Trying to learn how to shoot really small from someone shooting 1.5-3 MOA targets from improvised firing positions.
Trying to learn how to shoot in improvised firing positions from a square range shooter.
Trying to learn how to hunt, from a PRS competitor.
Trying to learn how to learn how to process brass for high volume precise field shooting from an F-class content creator.
There's countless more... but you see the issue is a problem of perspective and experience. I would never presume to instruct on how an F-class competitor should go about winning matches. The mindset and flag reading that occurs on those ranges. I have no experience to draw from, and it is a completely foolish idea that anyone trying to win a match would listen to me on the competitive aspects compared to someone that's won many events in that discipline. Yet I can very competently instruct on how to get a rifle shooting small.
If everyone that shoots would just stop doing everything else, and ONLY shoot every day... then they'd inexorably be drawn to the exact same conclusions as the apex performers in that discipline. How much further they take it from there will be measured by how much innovation they can generate. At some point, they stop following a path someone else created, and start blazing a trail of their own, for others to follow.
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