When you laid down in the prone, was your entire body directly behind the rifle or was part of it off to the side?
Do you muscle into the rifle (i.e. "fight recoil")?
Was your cheek firmly laid down on the stock (improper cheek wield will allow a rifle to bite you badly - rings that are the wrong height will force you to "crane" your neck up off of the stock or put your jaw-bone on the stock instead of firmly underneath your cheek-bone)?
In the prone, you want all of your weight behind the rifle (not off to the side) and you want to push your weight down behind the rifle like a sack of potatoes - i.e. dead weight).
You can push into the rifle to load the bipod first, but when you dig in and load the bipod, you should drop all your weight and that will absorb the recoil (don't fight recoil).
well as much of what i could tell i was all completely behind the rifle. Now i did notice a big difference when i would push up to the gun and load the bipod up as you are describing. but at first i was really trying to fight it. as for the cheek weld i am having to pick my head up somewhat if i lay it down completely on the stock then im losing maybe a 1/4 of the view in the top part of the scope if that makes since.
it was really cool though i know this thing will shoot sub moa with the right ammo and me having more practice with it. But today after sighting and getting bit a couple times i managed a group a little less than 1 1/2" so i was pleased.
I just got off the phone with one of the guys i work with and he was saying i can turn the rear eye piece separate from the magnification ring and that will increase the eye relief. any of you guys ever do that or know if this is true. The eye piece has like a jam ring and will turn out quite a lot after messing with it but i dont wanna mess up the scope by having it too far back or anything.