My next rifle will have another MPA. I tend to prefer a stock, just for aesthetics, or maybe rather I should say to keep my wife from complaining about the aesthetics of my rifles every time we go shoot. I have been a McMillan A3 fan for a long time, quite possibly my favorite stock ever, but the Manners are made in KS, and have some slightly advantageous attributes for games a So my latest rifle has a Manners, my next will be an MPA.
I didn’t really love the barricade blocks, but their system is fantastic. Same with the Area419 barricade block system, and really, any barricade block system - if you’re shooting free recoil and the targets aren’t straight out from the barricade, the rifle tries to steer back to perpendicular. A bag doesn’t do that. Lots of guys use them and like them, but they aren’t for me. They also can take too long to adjust on some stages with a lot of positions, if the barricade isn’t perfectly uniform thickness at each position. I practice with my blocks just enough to be able to use them when I need them for small portholes where a bag won’t work, but usually I just throw down my Cookie and run. Great tool to have in the bag, but it’s not my primary trick.