Admit that you've never owned or fired one.
Had about 5 of those buggers. Gave them all away. Friends tried to give them to me, wouldn't take them.
The price tag said it all. They sold from 9.99 to 14.95 tops. And Sears did carry them, I have catalog #25 somewhere in the pile that features them.
Junk. Plain and simple.
6.5 round nosed round, even in civilian, was a punk round.
Oswald was NOT the rifleman everyone claims. He barely made sharpshooter the two times he qualified.
He never practiced much with the rifle.
He was there, he had the rifle, he was part of it, he DID NOT do the damage. Another shooter(s) did.
Sigh, this debate will outlive the both of us.
BTW, the scope he used made it difficult to cycle the action without moving the head and losing sight picture. That was proven.
Oswald was a lefty. Even more difficult.
NO WAY could he get of 3 accurate shots in the time alotted.
I didn't believe it when it happened, I believe it even less today.
I still can't stand that pristine bullet. What a crock.