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To: Shooter 2.5

A humble suggestion:

We should set up a shooting range with a slow-moving target approximating the range at Dealey Plaza. Make it a tourist stop. I’d wager that about half of competent shooters could make the shots LHO did with the gear he used. About half of the other half would tell you they could have, on the right day with enough luck.

No one who sat in that nest and made that shot would ever again buy the BS that it was improbable, let alone impossible, If LHO could have made the shots, most of the conspiracy theories fade into oblivion.


41 posted on 05/13/2007 1:02:59 PM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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To: ReignOfError; Shooter 2.5
Wow. A whole Kennedy assassination thread without a single mention of the ''grassy knoll''.

What next!

43 posted on 05/13/2007 1:11:15 PM PDT by SAJ (debunking myths about markets and prices on FR since 2001)
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To: ReignOfError

Unfortunately, something like that was stopped due to bad publicity. There was a paintball company that set up a scenario. It was “Secret Serviceman” against the “assassins”.

It didn’t matter sides were switched each time. The bad publicity was enough to halt it or at least drive it underground.

Most real rifleman already know they can make that shot. The problem is convincing others of the time frame. 8.3 seconds is a long time for chambering, shoot, chambering, shoot, chambering and shoot.


45 posted on 05/13/2007 1:17:50 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: ReignOfError; y'all
A humble suggestion:
We should set up a shooting range with a slow-moving target approximating the range at Dealey Plaza. Make it a tourist stop. I?d wager that about half of competent shooters could make the shots LHO did with the gear he used. About half of the other half would tell you they could have, on the right day with enough luck.
No one who sat in that nest and made that shot would ever again buy the BS that it was improbable, let alone impossible, If LHO could have made the shots, most of the conspiracy theories fade into oblivion.

Great idea, - poor logic on how many shooters could do it.

I would speculate that under pressure, very few could. -- To simulate the pressure make the 3 shot fee at the range $1,000. -- for the one time chance to win $10,000.

I'd bet that in a month or two the range would have to offer 50 to 1 odds in order to attract shooters.

48 posted on 05/13/2007 1:32:03 PM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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To: ReignOfError; Shooter 2.5
By now, many have duplicated LHO's "impossible" shooting with exactly the same equipment. So, given the preponderance of the evidence, we're stuck with LHO. Who (if anyone) put him there, and why? LHO's connections and history are bizarre beyond belief.
115 posted on 05/14/2007 6:54:22 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Crazies to my left. Wimps to my right. BTW, Muslims ain't "Immigrants." They's Colonists.)
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