[redfreedom]

Right, cycling the bolt almost always means taking your eye out of the scope to do it. Yes, a bolt can be recycled in 2.3 seconds. But to reacquire the target, a moving target, all in that same time frame, impossible.

Oswald’s position was one of height. That does not necessarily make it a sniper’s perch. Anyone wanting to shoot above and away from the crowd would have selected it.

[marktwain]

Right, cycling the bolt almost always means taking your eye out of the scope to do it. Yes, a bolt can be recycled in 2.3 seconds. But to reacquire the target, a moving target, all in that same time frame, impossible.

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If you are using good technique, you do not move the rifle but from your shoulder when cycling the bolt. The is easier to do if you are holding the rifle on a solid rest, such as Oswald had access to. Lots of people have shown acquiring and shooting at targets with a low powered scope, such as was mounted on the Carcano, is not hard to do, and can be faster than using iron sights.

Here is a video of a bolt action shooter hitting targets at 200 yards, 39 shots in one minute, including reloading. This is a superb shooter, but he is doing it much faster than Oswald was supposed to have done it.

https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2019/06/norway-mad-minute-shockingly-fast-bolt-action-rifle-shooting/

[mfish13]

Not impossible as Oswald had a good perch to shoot from, from a target that was basically not moving.

[riverrunner]

If you can not require you target in a properly set up rifle with a scope on.

You need more practice.

Just because you can not do it doesn’t mean others can not do it.