Hey you said a few things here that are novel to me and I want to try, thanks for the reply. Talk to me more about rear bag. I haven't ordered a bag rider for this chassis yet, so I only have a little real estate to work with that inevitably must live more or less inside the bag as you said. Also, I do end up contacting the bag with my chest, way more when in prone too actually.
I belong to two ranges, one with benches like you see here, the other standard concrete benches. If I sit at the bench the way they are designed (the way an average person would address it), rifle ends up halfway down the upper part of my arm, head needs to tilt too far right, and generally feels way too unnatural from normal (pretty much centered under right eye and as high as possible, more off the collar bone). Plus neither style of bench are long enough for my rifle in normal configuration, so I end up turning the one in the pictures around to get more real estate. Concrete ones im back behind the center of the bench, support pole between my legs.
So, sounds like a bag rider is in order to get the butt end un-burried, ill def do that next. What are some things I could try to get my chest off the bags? Could I lower or raise the platform? Backing up isn't really an option, cause id need to move the scope back to get eye relief in a way which won't work for when im not on bench/prone. Is it as simple as just needing to sit at the bench normally and live with addressing the rifle more to the side like normal for load development?
For what it's worth, I dont see the rifle is moving whatsoever when setup (chest influence I mean). Very light pressure with cheek/jaw, and 1/8" or so off shoulder in what I call free recoil, but you guys would prob call a modified free recoil or soft hold.