You may have a point. I started using these Lead Sled devices only recently - after more than30 years of being pounded by all sort of hard kicking rifles. But if you started a 14 year old kid out with the Lead Sled, would they start crying and throw the gun down after one shot prone in the field? I don't know . . . Or would they never develop the little flinch I have fought on and off for decades?

In my case, there is enough adrenalin involved in shooting game under field conditions to make me oblivious to the recoil. And since my brain doesn't know the gun kicks much, from shooting off the bench, it doesn't let me invoke any bad habits at the Moment of Truth. The "learning to shoot under field conditions" can be done with smaller calibers - and I nowonly shoot the bigger rifles off the Lead Sled or at big game. For me, these things work.