"California kneeling" rifle position

The so-called California kneeling position, known also as double kneeling,  places both of your knees on the ground. It is great for field rest shooting. By field rest, I mean improvised firing positions in which you lean over a solid and steady object or lean up against one. You can easily adjust the height of the California firing position to shoot leaning over a rest such as a boulder or a fallen tree, or as easily lean your body slightly to one side to gain support from a vertical object such as a fence post or a wall. You would not ordinarily adjust by leaning backward, for bending forward is more natural and better balanced, yet the occasional situation might call for a backward lean, such as needing to shoot at an upwards angle. Because of its great adaptability to the height of the field rest and the target elevation angle, California kneeling is useful with nearly any rest you find.

If you cannot find a field rest, you can shoot from California kneeling just as you would shoot offhand, because the positions are alike from the waist up, but with the advantage that sway from your legs is taken out of the equation.

I am much in favor of using field rests when they may be found, or improvised, so California kneeling makes good sense to me. Prone is, of course, best if you can achieve it. Where the circumstances do not permit prone, but the wretched last resort of shooting offhand can be avoided, consider California kneeling.