We have likely heard the truth on the shooting, but it is mixed in with so much other junk and supposition that we can't pick it out. That having been said, Dear God in Heaven I am sooooo tired of the non-stop Kennedy/Oswald/LBJ/grassy knoll stuff on the tube. Needless to say, with all the commotion at school, it is a day I will long remember. I was 8 years old at the time and attending Catholic school in Texas. I'm not saying he did it, or did it alone, or anything beyond the simple statement that the shooting was almost certainly within his capability with the equipment he had. I've got the identical rig - except for the ammo - and believe me, he definitely could have done it. True the scope and mount are crappy, but they are plenty good enough for this job. Almost anyone with a little practice could pull it off. For a decent shot, the whole exercise is, maybe not a piece of cake, but it hardly qualifies as fancy shooting. He had a little over 8 seconds to shoot the second and 3rd shot at a final distance of only 85 yds. He practised with the rifle, so he knew his equipment. He was a decent, Marine trained shot, very likely better than most civilians.
I have been told by a real buff of this event that it was the closest to what he thought Oswald was like. For one of the closest to reality looks at Oswald try to catch the two part "Quantum Leap" show. I don't think there was a shot longer than 150 yards, but I am not a buff of this event, I could very well be wrong.Įven crazed idiots get "lucky". It has been reenacted several times that I have read of, and was repeated during the tests. The scope, that was a POS, and the mount was worse from what I have heard.Īs to the difficulty of the shots, hard but not out of possibility. One of my carbines will give 1.25" five shot groups (one flyer or would have been. The rifle, well, with good ammo the Carcano is as accurate as any other military rifle. maker, see the "Odd 6.5 Carcano ammo in box's" thread. I can't hardly watch the Zapruder tape anymore. Three shots on a moving target in just a few seconds with a POS rifle,scope and ammo. The thing that has always bothered me about the assasination is that Oswald would had to have been an unbelievable shot. I am now completely convinced that it definitely was a garden variety milsurp. In certain light the stock did look shiny and very dark, almost as though it was painted. A lab tech who was at the crime scene,said the stock was so rough he couldn't get any decent fingerprints off it. There were a couple of very clear, well lit shots of the stock, not held long, but long enough, to be certain that C2766 had a garden variety, sort of beat up(the usual handling marks, good honest wear etc.), brown wood(walnut?) milsurp stock. I was already more or less convinced that the notion that C2766 was a 'black' painted rifle formerly belonging to Il Duce's private guard was incorrect, but this program was the clincher. Recently the History Channel did an hour on the guns of infamous historical characters and finished with a good segment on Oswald's 6.5 '38 Carcano short rifle ser.no. I think there is a chance this may be of some interest to the regular's on this forum. I shall try to assemble some of the more noteworthy contributions. The topic has come up in the Second Forum repeatedly, and usually with good knowledge.
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