Notice the notation of " CARTONS HERE NOT SHOWN" Well there WERE CARTONS there when Weitzman saw the rifle....His head would have been in the position of the Letter "N" at the end of the word "SHOWN" It should be obvious that Weitzman could NOT have seen the rifle if if had been jammed betwen the boxes as it is depicted in the fake in situ photo. The "cartons not shown" would have been in his line of sight.....
Notice that the camera was pointing directly west when Studebaker snapped DP # 12...... Studebaker was in the same aisle that Seymour Weitzman was in when he spotted the rifle beneath the pallet.... IF the rifle had been jammed between the boxes Weitzman could not have seen the rifle because he would have been at an angle to the rifle ( if it had been there)
I suspect that the ORIGINAL configuration of the 2nd row of boxes was NOT in disarray as in the photo of the rifle on the floor. That disarray was from UNSTACKING the boxes so as to allow for the photo to be taken.
Therefore, IF the original condition was 2 parallel walls of stacked boxes with only a very narrow gap between, that would explain having gone past these boxes as many as EIGHT times and failed to see the rifle.
Not until Boone actually got a light and shined it in the NARROW gap between those 2 parallel WALLS of stacked boxes, was the rifle actually seen by Boone. Imo, Weitzman is "embellishing" his sighting of the rifle to coincide with Boone spotting it 1st, even though that would be impossible to have seen the rifle from the other side of the pallete of boxes Wietzman was peering under/through.
Imo, the original arrangement of the boxes was 2 rows of parallel walls of boxes, which is implied by Wietzmans own statement that the rifle was "well hidden" and "covered with boxes".
The configuration of the boxes as presented in the photo of the rifle on the floor is NOT a "well hidden, covered by boxes" condition, imho, and I doubt seriously that if that had been the actual original configuration that they would have missed seeing the rifle EIGHT TIMES passing by it.