Proper bench technique for heavy recoiling rifles?

I shoot all my rifles the same at the bench. I use a Wichita forward stand and a sand filled shaped bag similar to the op's. I always use an additional slip on pad. I move the seat down so that my body is fairly straight and shoot groups.

I do this with a 6.x55, a 3006, a 338wm, a 416 Rigby, and a 4570; and get good results. I don't generally go over 30 rounds with the Rigby at a sitting.

I do agree with some of the posters that for guns like the Rigby standing has less felt recoil.
 
tjsudbury said:
Read an article a few years back about a guy whose job it was to regulate Rigby double rifles.
His "bench" was high enough so that he stood at it, leaning into the rifle
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That might be the same article I remember. As I recall the pic was taken at Rigby's California facility. I can't find that image anywhere at the moment but here's a similar one from a Guns & Ammo article on recoil management (http://archives.gunsandammo.com/content/recoil-management-101) although it looks like the chap in the pic might be sitting.

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:) Stuart
 
They say that heavy recoiling rifles should be fired with your back straight when sitting at the bench; I don't know, I don't shoot from a bench very often, and I don't own any heavy recoiling rifles . . . unless you count the .458.
 
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