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To: 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.


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/


34 posted on 03/27/2025 10:34:38 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

For some reason the video link did not show up, but I reviewed the material. It appears they are shooting at a 15.75 inch stationary target at 200 yards. These are people that have plenty of range time to practice their skills to become perfectionists in competition.

You cannot compare that to Oswald, a minimally experienced shooter, shooting at a volley ball size target at 88 yards that is in motion.

When someone shows me a person that scored marksman in the military, that seldom gets range time, whose scope is known not to be zeroed, using a rifle and scope identical to Oswald’s, shooting from the same elevation Oswald did, at a volley ball size target, moving at the same speed JFK’s vehicle was, in the same direction, at the same range, and get two perfect shots in 2.3 seconds, I will then believe Oswald could have done it all by himself. That’s comparing apples to apples.

Anything else is like trying to call an apple an orange or a grape or whatever else is not identical.


36 posted on 03/27/2025 3:17:29 PM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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