You'll find like I did that you will use the scoop position far more often then you thought possible, and even with the rubber flaps gone it doesn't leave stripes in the scoop position. You can angle to side-cast to move snow, but I stack in the scoop position, and clean up in the scoop position. What will really make you a beleiver is the scoops ability to move snow. My Fisher will roll snow in front of it and with the edges throwing snow to the center, in a nice dry snow it will roll snow high enough to block the plow lights!
I mounted the rubber snow deflector with the angle iron opposite from the way Fisher says, I found with the angle iron forceing the deflector down it would trap snow and lift the blade. This way in heavy snow it rolls up acting like an extension of the plow and you can stack and carry a lot more snow.
After years of chasing winrows with a straight blade, I'll never go back.
Bill