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Picture shows you "crawling" the stock. Butt should be higher than your shoulder, neck more vertical, not craned forward, just lean your head over on the stock for cheek weld. Recoil on .223 is not so much that it has to be in the shoulder pocket like a 30-06.How's your shooting stance? Good firm stock weld, and leaning forward slightly with a solid fighting stance? That last part is key, I can't tell you how many people I see at the range shooting a rifle while standing perfectly straight (or worse, leaning backwards), and being rocked back under recoil with each shot.
This is how I shoot my AR-15, and I can double tap with good accuracy. Recoil is a non issue.
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Do you get your natural point of aim (NPA) before your first shot or do you try to "muscle" the muzzle back on target? Close your eyes then pick up the rifle and put it in the shoulder. Where is the sight pointing? That's your natural point of aim for that position. The rifle wil recoil back to this position and you will have to muscle it to get back on target.
Repeat position set up, and move the back leg to adjust your point of aim left - right and shoulder position, cheek, fore grip for vertical. Rifle will recoil back onto the natural point of aim without having to muscle it back on target..
When you get this, practice mounting the rifle with your eyes closed to get / learn sight alignment; The "feel" of the NPA will become natural as muscle memory will will take care of the rest, even in a n emergency situation.