Agree 100%, I don't get the comparison between military and civilian games. Yeah, PRS is a game, and its played like one. It is certainly based on practical situations as circus as it might get at times. Games and competition lead to innovation in gear and techniques. I have seen PRS stuff go directly into training, and know a sniper instructor who wanted all his shooters to go experience it, cause it taught shooting that didn't happen in course. He also shot at AMU and brought what he learned from those games with ridiculous jackets that wouldn't go to combat.
Who cares if a guy uses a stroller... go to Mammoth or another match where its straightforward grit and shooting.
100% the civilian games are an incubator for stuff that gets incorporated all the time by professionals.
Listen to Caylen, he started using tripods in combat cause he had high windows with no furniture. It was a necessity. Listen to Phil, he admit dentists whipped him at his first matches. Frank lashed his bipods. Hat Creek Training teaches tripod and bag use to elite professionals. I sold dozens of bags to him for his students that they took with them. PRS requires pure shooting skils to win, regardless of games and silly gear.
I learned tripod shooting from Marine and SF sniper instructors. And, shooting matches gave me confidence to call and make shots at distance hunting. I stopped carrying a bipod on backcountry hunts because a Mini Waxed bag and a tripod get me sub moa to any reasonable hunting distance.
I can deploy a tripod very fast, as fast or faster than fuds can get into position prone. I can put a shooter on a tripod for the first time and have them shooting inside vitals out to 600 and 700 immediately if they don't jerk the trigger.
In July 2019, the mil sniper taught me a tripod trick and weeks later I used it to shoot a deer at 575 in the neck with 100% confidence. I was as steady as prone. And, I used my puffy jacket stuffed into another shirt as support, where I would have used a pillow in a match.