I use an e-collar, so I voted that way. Here is clarification.
Being a 1st time trainer, I am still trying to figure it all out. He wears an e-collar whenever I train, but, I don't use the collar for everything. The reason: I have seen a few dogs that were screwed up by an e-collar and I wasn?t sure, as a novice, that my experience was up to the task to use it for everything. The little I use it, I use it most often for OB but some retrieve training. As I learn more and more I am "starting" to develop a philosophy that I am actually starting to call my own. If I had to call it anything, I would call myself a "New Order Amish" trainer. Method: I just leg it out, repeat and simplify, lots of repetition, some yelling, some whistle, some heeling stick, lots of encouragement, lots of praise and the button when needed.
Joe M.