Update:
Thanks a bunch guys for all the help. I trimmed the staff, and I feel it is still a bit long. But rather than continue to cut on it, I tried using the grub screw that governs the angle of the staff. I reckoned that if it had a more acute angle, it would effectively lower the rifle vis the left palm. I also tried raising and lowering the right elbow to lift or lower the back of the rifle to arrive at a consistent firing position. This technique is not all that effective I don't think. At least not enough to change the gross angle of things, maybe it would be helpful in fine tuning elevation once the base setting of the palm rest staff length were arrived at.
While changing the angle of the palm rest does lower it a bit vis the left palm, the rifle weighs a ton more with each angle increase. So I reckon I'm back to a more vertical staff angle, and cutting maybe 1/4 inch off and trying it again. As it is, the staff is bottomed out in the socket, which has tension screws one can tighten to sort of clamp onto the staff were one to find a happy place less than all the way into the socket.
I'm going very slowly here in effort to "measure twice and cut once" as Mr. Ross Perot used to say.
Oh. Another question: I find that keeping my back straight is the most comfortable and steady position so far, rather than sort of scrunching into the rifle. However with an erect head position, I find that I cant the rifle a bit inboard. I had no issues doing this when I shot high power, as I could adjust the sights around the cant. The issue, of course, becomes one of assuring that the angle of cant remains consistent. I'm conjuring up a sort of bubble arrangement, rotated a bit around the axis of the barrel so that a quick glance would assure that the cant is consistent, shot-to-shot.
Suggestions or ideas?