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Once you're sighted in, forget the bench rest. You can sit in your living room in play-like field positions and dry-fire. And plinking practice while in field positions is very helpful when you go on a hunt. Like any physical endeavor, it takes practice in real-world conditions.
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Excellent advice, there...... but do not neglect to actually shoot your rifle from field positions (and practice getting into them QUICKLY) with the loads you will be using at the ranges you will be shooting..... and add time pressure, because as HiBC noted, you probably will get only 5 or 10 seconds to make the shot, maybe less...... IME, more shots are missed because because they were rushed, or not taken at all, because the hunter was not in good position fast enough when the game presented itself, instead of poor math or range estimation skills ...... today's rifles and ammo are so flat shooting that pretty much anything under about 300 yards is point and shoot...... modern rifles and optics are rugged and durable enough to "set and forget" as long as one treats them with due care ..... It is the shooter that is always the greatest variable in the system, and his/her skills are perishable.
https://www.hornady.com/ammunition/r...sion-hunter#!/
Your gun and ammo, sighted in 2" high (I prefer 3" high m'self, but that's me) should allow you to "hold in the hair" to 300 yards. The question is, can you get into a steady position and make a pie plate accurate shot up to that range in the 5 to 10 seconds you might have with the equipment that you have to do it with?