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To: investigateworld; The KG9 Kid; Ditto
I bought a Mannlicher Caranco 91/38, and neither I or any other trained marksmen have been able to duplicate Oswald's feat, shooting at a fixed target.

I don't know about investigateworld's specific attempts, but a lot of people make the mistake of presuming that the 8.7 seconds (or whatever it was) includes the time Oswald spent lining up the first shot. It doesn't. The clock starts with the firing of the first bullet. That gave Oswald ~8.7 seconds to get off two shots, not three.

When ABC News did a special on the assassination last year, they had on a retired Marine Corps marksman. Using a Mannlicher-Caranco, he was easily able to get off three shots in the alloted time, even hesitating before the last shot, as Oswald did.

The marksman was 89 years old.

85 posted on 11/24/2004 2:27:19 PM PST by Dont Mention the War (W2: Coming January 20, 2005! Be There!)
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To: Dont Mention the War
Using a "scoped bolt action" rifle?, on a moving target?... Would love to see that!. By a so so rated marksman? As posted earlier, all the players are dead or too old to have
memories that are "fresh" enough to be credible to cross examination.
Still digging on right handed vs. left handed.
91 posted on 11/24/2004 3:00:15 PM PST by investigateworld (( "Bob, I bled from every wound", Sen. J. Kerry to Sen. R. Dole ...Target HQ is in a blue state! ))
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