Hathcock was the best of the best. All soldiers are heroes in my way of thinking. Nice photos.

Speaking of Hathcock, recently ran across a reference to him that some might find interesting. It is there if you keep reading.

https://www.ballisticstudies.com/Knowledgebase/Hold+that+Forend.html

Again, some might find this helpful, others will reject it outright. Intended to be applied to moderate to heavy recoil hunting rifles in hunting situations. FWIW.

We are a free country because these heroes were willing to put their lives on the line to make sure we stayed that way. The current administration wants to take away this freedom.

Don't want to even attempt to summarize his book in one or two sentences, but short version is he is not fond of guys shooting cross armed off bipods.......wants them to use a sandbag or firm front and rear stock rest, plus sling and firm grip on forearm to minimize the "bounce" from recoil.......and third factor is a straight, inline stock. Monte Carlo stocks offset from straight recoil of rifle contributing to felt recoil and causing muzzle bounce. And again, that applies to guys using larger caliber sporter hunting rifles. Not heavy barreled, lite recoiling small caliber target rifles.....one's that don't bounce much anyway. His motivation is to teach guys how to accurately shoot sporter rifles in actual field conditions.

Beyond that, his point was......if you want to shoot like Hathcock did........then shoot like Hathcock did. Use same methods he used.