I don't want to be impolite or anything, but the lanyard system you can mount in the top middle position is for retention in case the nods fall out of their mount. In this mount its pretty much useless since there is no break away feature, but I guess you can still manage to bump the release button in the horn and drop them accidentally if you're very unlucky. So I would keep it there just in case. Bungees are in the other hand much stronger and take out the little play/slack there might be between the dovetail and the mount. Just be careful when you attach the bungee cords into the nods and adjust the distance to your eyes from the mount, those bungees will pull it back so hard it will make you look like a raccoon after the nods hit you in the eyes😁 Don't ask where do I know that🙈 All in all great video, there are not too many videos from this mount out there👍