educate me, free recoil vs hold

[BoydAllen]

I believe that his bag is one that Dave Dohrman used to sell. It has leather ears, with a special cloth that Dave came up with, to reduce friction, sewed on top of the leather. The idea was that the leather holds its shape better, and the cloth was to give a better slide. What you can't see, because of the thickness of the bench mat, is that the bag is a soft bottom design, and probably sits on one of Dave's spacers, that were constructed to reduce rocking by supporting the bag at its edge, or one of the Skip Otto designed ring or doughnut bags. I have one of those bags, in the taller version, with one of the spacers.

 

[243Mendoza]

How the Legend Shoots
Here is video of Tony Boyer shooting at the Shamrock. He is using pretty much a free recoil technique, but he does index his right hand along the side of the stock. Note how well the gun stays in the bags on recoil. There is no twist or hop -- TB has a well-balanced gun.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4oLE1MmZc

Watching the video, it seems that Tony is doing on the spot brass prep to the fired brass. What is he doing?

 

[rayporter]

you must stay seated untill cease fire. so we busy ourselves doing what brass prep we can to speed loading. if you normally wipe necks or brush necks now is a good time. just a few steps saved at the loading table.

 

[BoydAllen]

On the necessity of shooting free recoil in order to be competitive....Watch the video. (He doesn't)
http://www.accurateshooter.com/guns-of-week/gunweek079/
Scroll down. http://www.accurateshooter.com/guns-of-week/gunweek066/
http://www.accurateshooter.com/guns-of-week/gunweek053/
http://www.accurateshooter.com/guns-of-week/gunweek050/
http://www.accurateshooter.com/guns-of-week/gunweek044/
http://www.accurateshooter.com/guns-of-week/gunweek044/
http://www.accurateshooter.com/guns-of-week/gunweek078/ (video)
Just reporting...Make up your own mind.