Oh, what I would give to fly an aircraft that would always give me buffet before the stall
. Most of the modern day stuff we GA pilots fly rarely gives a buffet, sometimes a wing drop (normally due to being out of balance), occasionally a pitch forward, thus leaving us with a rapid ROD as the
only reliable indication of a stall. Even then, you can handle the controls like a complete idiot and the chances are you will still walk away.
Of course, I'm still a big fan of the "unload simultaneously applying full power" technique as long as student pilots realise that it is only the unload bit that will un-stall the wing; the power bit is a bonus.