Yearick not patsy Crooks who was a lousy shooter.
The only evidence he was a “lousy shooter” was the word of just one kid who claimed that was the case but who admitted he had never attended a class with him and he didn’t join the club until after the wannabe assassin had graduated and gone.
The shooter, like other members of the club, just didn’t make the team, is all that kid’s comment meant. Spots were limited some didn’t make the cut. That doesn’t mean this wannabe assassin was a poor shooter it merely means he wasnt the best.
The wannabe assassin after high school went around to various ranges and practiced. I dont know how you can do that and not get better.
In the end he came within a quarter inch of killing a president...and that is after being startled by some cops climbing up one side of the building. Excellent shooters get buck fever and miss when they Ser their first deer without interference...how much more jittery would be a first time assassin?