[Mack]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

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.

Have you seen the shots he made through a telescopic lens? They weren't even lucky shots.