Right off the bat, and without being snide in the least, ditch those Luddite rectangular plates, and get something made to fit a human and not a BBQ grill made from a 55gal drum.
If your plates ride low when you're standing, and end up attaining proper coverage when you hunker down, then your plates are shifting and are really unlikely to be where they're supposed to be in either spot. That Condor carrier being a POS aside, you're not fitted correctly. Aside from MAYBE having the plate maybe come up under your throat a bit when you sit because your thighs push up on the bottom of the plate, they shouldn't be moving like that. Snug up the PC, or change sizes if you can't get it to stop shifting position on the size you have.
If your plates are shifting around that much, your whole rig is probably slapping you silly when you move (bouncing up and down when your run, in particular), which is awkward to move in because it affects your balance in ways you have to constantly compensate for, which makes you mote tired over time, which makes you have to compensate for your affected balance, which.......it's a negative feedback loop. One has to ask one's self if all that avoidable extra fatigue (and maybe all that falling down) is worth a certain level of perceived discomfort, given that armor is inherently uncomfortable even when fitted perfectly.
Given what you have, you simply will have to sacrifice SOMEthing. Those corners up by your shoulders bind in ways you simply cannot compensate for without impacting something else.
Any sort of shooting away from service rifle and the like is an exercise in applying the fundamentals you are able to apply given time/terrain and all the other extracurriculars, anyway. If you're not able to replace your rectangular plates with something a bit more current/ergonomic, you're going to have to reconcile yourself to the idea of "perfect is the enemy of good" in regard to your positioning.
Contractor scum, PM Infantry Weapons
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