Sure it disqualifies you. Those same guys in the 60s and 70s who were putting rests on their recurves were just as often shooting sights, or berger buttons. The whole gadget scene was well developed, with bowslings, releases, and stabilizers. In fact one had a hard time getting a bow that could be shot off the shelf without alterration. They radiused the "shelf" area so arrows would actualy fall right off, it made for a stronger transition given that nobody wanted to shoot off the shelf. And the shelf itself was quite a bit above the hand. The stick on rests could only be place about where the transverse button hole was. AP is dead right that the bows were tillered to work with all this stuff.

If you take gear from that age with some or all these features, it just isn't "traditional". I'm no gatekeeper, and don't care whether somethign is traditional or not. But I'm not going to snow myself on the question either. You go to a traditional shoot, you don't see folks dressed like the 60 and 70, with the bow I've described above. You could give it a bang and say you were recreating the traditions of that period, but that ain't the period/look that Traditional harks back to. There are lots of influences, but the Bear/Hill looks don't go that way.

Further, if you want to shoot "Traditional" and want to shoot instrinctive/barebow/gap/whatever. Why would you try to elevate your arrow away from your bow hand, or set yourself up for a nock point/tiller situation that wasn't designed into your bow (by the reverse of the point AP made) if it's of modern/traditional type? If it's an old bow and is begging to be shot off a high rest that's different.

Actualy one thing I am working towards is making a FITA bow in the style of that period, with some influence from the look of the later Widow FITA bow in an Autum Oak finish. I have some roots in the 60s, 70s and 80s archery scene, and would like to make a wooden riser bow incorporating some of the stuff we have learned since. It would be cool to hold one's own with a FITA Perry Reflex also.

Do what you want too, but you're asking a simple enough question. I think a lot of the confusion comes from a desire of some to have an unstructured discusion. Afterall who gets to say what is traditional, Yatta, Yatta. It's a style issue, and there aren't any hard rules. But when I look around and see I'm the only one wearing a tux at a "Business Casual" function it's time to admit the obvious. Allen invented the compound in the 70s too, that doesn't make it traditional.