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tpaine; -- The problem you are dealing with here is that you are trying to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

You have so many closed minded individuals here that don't know what in the hell they are talking about.

They suck up all the crap that the govt feeds them and beg for more. I won't argue with them. The only thing they can do is to post snide childish remarks and won't debate the facts. Won't admit when they are wrong, and won't listen to anyone except their fairy tale masters.

202 posted on 09/30/2003 8:05 AM PDT by Leatherneck_MT

The singing pig question of the day seems to be if Oswald was able to zero his MC in 'about' three shots.. - Please advise from a leathernecks perspective.

From my perspective not only as a Marine but as a Primary Marksmanship instructor and the owner of no less than 19 Expert awards on the Rifle range and 17 pistol, The MC could have been zero'd to perform this kind of shooting only with a very good OS and a very stable shooting bench equipped with clamps. Even then the accuracy of the weapon itself is in doubt.

Add to this the accuracy of LHO in the Marine Corps on a KD course and in my professional opinion there is no way he did the shooting. He couldn't CONSISTANTLY hit a stationary target in a tight sling position under very little stress. Here he is alleged to have assassinated the leader of the free world and did it with phenomenal precision, under extreme duress.

Someone else posted this below (thanks Phildragoo) and I would like to reiterate it. Since I am an unknown entity here I could say anything and claim anything, but I gaurantee you THIS man knows what he's talking about.

Craig Roberts, Kill Zone, CPI, 1994, pages 89-90:

According to my friend, Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, the former senior instructor for the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper Instructor School at Quantico, Virginia, it could not be done as described by the FBI investigators. Gunny Hathcock, now retired, is the most famous American military sniper in history. In Vietnam he was credited with 93 confirmed kills--and a total of over 300 actual kills counting those unconfirmed. He now conducts police SWAT team sniper schools across the country. When I called him to ask if he had seen the Zapruder film, he chuckled and cut me off. "Let me tell you what we did at Quantico," he began. "We reconstructed the whole thing: the angle, the range, the moving target, the time limit, the obstacles, everything. I don't know how many times we tried it, but we couldn't duplicate what the Warren Commission said Oswald did. Now if I can't do it, how in the world could a guy who was a non-qual on the rifle range and later only qualified 'marksman' do it?"

I stand by my professional opinion and by Gy Hathcock's statement.

Lee Harvey Oswald did NOT have the skill necessary to do the shooting. Period

Oh, and to everyone who's only rebuttal is to resort to flames and childish snide remarks, don't bother. Either show proof that he did the shooting or drop it. The burden of proof is STILL on the accusers as LHO has never been convicted in a court of Law, nor will he be.