Hi,
What you're doing might work, I never tried it but I think it's possible. But maybe you might choose a different path. What are you trying to accomplish? You could create a site-to-site VPN from the pfsense to the remote openvpn server. (the remote openvpn server does not have to be a complete subnet, it can be just 1 host)
You could try disabling the rules for a short time to see if your OpenVPN connection stays stable.
As for the log files, what do you see in your "system" log at the same time? Something else that looks different?
Regards,
Kristof.