Posted on 09/14/2025 11:45:51 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
Have they ever released a photo of the Rile used by Tyler Robinson?
I recently inherited a Mauser from WWII, and I'm confident that the one he used was not that style,
but I am curious as to how he carried it due to it's length.
They don't seem to be easily dis-assembled.
Was the stock cut down?
I can go with that.
They may be different, but the 1903 was not sufficiently different from earlier Mauser designs for the U.S. government to avoid paying royalties to the German company. That is a simple historical fact, not my opinion...
I’m seeing 175-200 yards, 30-06., downhill. No mention of bullet weight. Zeroed at 150yards, he could hold dead on and get a potentially lethal hit from the muzzle to 250 yards.
Well it does to me, and I own one exactly like it in 22-250.
100% Mauser 98 design.
He did drive there in a gray Dodge Challenger pickup truck.
Here we see the original rifle box.
No, that is the Law Enforcement Evidence Box, on the ground at the wooded site, where the rifle was recovered by Law Enforcement.
It is used, along with crime scene photos, for the preservation of evidence and evidence chain-of-custody proof.
you know better... the information about the rifle that was found has been provided to the public... why are you stirring up shit on free republic?...
As I clarified the reason I could not comment on that detail.
Hmm. I can still spot a photograph of Rachel Welsh at most any distance.
I'm only familiar with Raquel Welch.
That one. Gosh, no sympathy I see. ;-D
Before or after the jump off the roof?
It takes special equipment to faithfully reproduce gunfire and other explosions.
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I’m not buying that. The cell phone mic faithfully recorded a light caliber firearm pretty accurately.
He’s a little twerp.
LOL!!
Love your satire on mauser....
Of course, the rifle attributed to Oswald was made by Mannlicher-Carcano, an Italian company. In a sense though, it was also a Mauser in that it had a Mauser type bolt action design and even some German Mauser parts, albeit in a slightly smaller caliber and with a different cartridge feed system.
As it was, the discovery of Oswald's rifle in the Texas School Book Depositary was marked by urgency and confusion. When the rifle was found, a knot of law enforcement officers clustered about waiting for crime techs and their superiors to arrive. With only a cursory view, someone declared that it was a Mauser. This essentially meant bolt action, as distinct from a gas operated semi-automatic rifle like a WW II US Army carbine or Garand rifle.
The harder point for the Warren Commission account is that Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano was not easy to operate and was not especially accurate. Before JFK's assassination, a then teen cousin of mine bought the same model rifle from the same supplier as Oswald. It was so inaccurate that my cousin immediately concluded and remains convinced that JFK must have been killed by a conspiracy.
At approximately 1:11–1:14 p.m.,[28] Tippit was driving slowly eastward on East 10th Street — about 100 feet (30 m) past the intersection of 10th Street and Patton Avenue — when he pulled alongside a man who resembled the police description.[29][30] Oswald walked over to Tippit's car and exchanged words with him through an open vent window.[31] Tippit opened his car door and began walking to the front of the car. Oswald then drew his handgun and fired four shots in rapid succession. Three bullets hit Tippit in the chest, and as he lay on the ground, another shot hit his right temple, killing him instantly. Tippit's body was transported from the scene of the shooting by ambulance to Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:25 p.m. by Dr. Richard A. Liguori.[11]
I was aware the official version claimed Oswald used a Manlicher-Carcano. I was referring to a statement by DPD officer Roger Craig:
“Roger Craig was on duty in Dallas on 22nd November, 1963. After hearing the firing at President John F. Kennedy he ran towards the Grassy Knoll where he interviewed witnesses to the shooting. About 15 minutes later he saw a man running from the back door of the Texas School Book Depository down the slope to Elm Street. He then got into a Nash station wagon.
Craig saw the man again in the office of Captain Will Fritz. It was the recently arrested Lee Harvey Oswald. When Craig told his story about the man being picked up by the station wagon, Oswald replied: “That station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine... Don’t try to tie her into this. She had nothing to do with it.”
Craig was also with Seymour Weitzman, Will Fritz, Eugene Boone and Luke Mooney when the rifle was found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Craig insisted that the rifle found was a 7.65 Mauser and not a Mannlicher-Carcano.
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKcraigR.htm
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