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Firearms owners do stuff like that all the time. The problem is re-creating the assassination of a President. It's bad PR.

There is even a Quigley match. That's where the owners of the gun range figure out the speed of a horse, calculated the distance by timing the running of the horse in the movie.

They then put out a steel plate the size of the bucket and shoot at it with rolling blocks, falling blocks and trapdoors.

There was also a re-creation of the Billy Dixon Shot. After reading about people who know how to shoot, it's pretty stupid to think we have to explain a shot at less then a hundred yards with a scope.

I shoot regularly at clay birds at 65 yards with handguns standing up. It's easy. If you care to see the movies, I can Freepmail you the evidence.

I'm not going to comment about your skill and talents. I believe you are as good as you say you are.

But there are so many other things involved with the shooting that Oswald is purported to have done.

Forget about the tree, the angle, the speed, the reracking of rounds, the moving target, the size of the target, etc.

There is also the pressure of having to make an attempt on the President. There is the pressure of realizing that firing three times from the same place is going to allow people to triangulate on the source, and likely catch you doing the deed and going to jail forever.

Shooting skeet with a pistol in a standing position is good. Now try it while someone else has a pistol aimed at your head - realizing that if you miss, the guy holding the gun on you will kill you. Now you have a roughly equivalent scenario.

Do you see what I'm saying now? It isn't just the shot, its also the pressure. Do we reasonably believe that an amateur like Oswald with an axe to grind could pull of the job of a veteran sniper assassin?

I'd be very curious to read or watch a documentary on the shot as described by professional Marine snipers. I know that once that first shot is fired, everything changes for the second shot, and after the second, the situation completely changes for the third, etc.

If the shooting were done by one person, then they were extraordinary.