To: Destro
When I talked about visiting Dealey Plaza and it reinforcing my belief that Oswald did it, I was talking about all the stuff about how hard a shot it was and how it would've taken an expert marksman to make this shot and how Oswald was a lousy shot and how he didn't have time enough to get off the shots.
The way I saw it, it wasn't a hard shot at all. With a rifle with a 4X scope, I think I'd have had a chance to make that shot at a target going that slowly, that was only 88 yards away at max distance. Oswald's Marine shooting records weren't all that awful, he wasn't Davy Crockett but he was a darn sight better than if you'd pulled someone off the street and stuck a gun in his hands, plus Oswald had been practicing. And as far as the time between shots, what a lot of people don't stop to think is that one shell was already chambered. So he only had to work the bolt twice, not three times.
33 posted on
11/26/2003 8:53:24 PM PST by
GB
To: GB
Where had Oswald been practicing? He didn't drive or own a car. Has there been a witis come forward and state that he took Oswald out to the Trinity River to shoot moving snakes?
Also, why use a scope on a moving target. Every expert I've ever heard talk about this say a normal front to rear sight would have been best.
To: GB
What is not commonly known is that when military sharpshooters test-fired "Oswald's" rifle, they were unable to bring the scope into alignment until they inserted a metal shim under the scope.
108 posted on
11/27/2003 5:32:38 PM PST by
Indrid Cold
(He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.)
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