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Originally Posted by Eric
And as for Oswald being a good shot? I'm a decent shot with a rifle, but the gun he was supposed to have used  I've fired one of those Italian pieces of junk, and it was in good condition when my buddy bought it: never fired and only dropped once  Hitting the side of a barn from 10 feet away is a good shot with one of those things.D |
Eric, I agree it's hardly a snipers rifle but several marksmen duplicated Oswald's results( speed,range, accuracy score) using that same rifle and Oswald
had qualified as a sharpshooter and marksman not that long before.
Accepting that he did it he must have felt he could do it using that rifle(perhaps he wasn't too worried whether he killed or not, as long as he made his point). And it worked better than he expected.
The test results on the rifle, carried out by a variety of independent shooters, are facts, unlikely but still facts.
Maybe he was just lucky and Kennedy was unlucky.