Shells, rifle, SN... Who?

[Mitch Todd]

You're kidding, right?  Your explanation is one giant assumption.

What giant assumption is that?

[Mitch Todd]

So maybe the clip that Weitzman described had a window.  Your explanation is that he didn't see a clip at all, but just assumed it into existence.

If it had a window, then the rifle wasn't a Mauser.

Unless you're talking about an en bloc clip. Then the rifle would also not be a Mauser.

[Mitch Todd]

When did I do that?  And who's Young?

And why did you quote my post that had nothing to do with a a corpsman in order to make this response?

I guess that's what I get for juggling quotes. I was trying to reply this:

Not true.  One of them was allegedly recovered by a Navy corpsman. What was he doing messing with a crime scene before the FBI arrived?

The source for that was a Dr James Young who was one of the white house physicians. But, as I've said, he didn't say that the corpsman found the fragment, just that the corpsman showed up at Bethesda with it and three skull fragments in an envelope.

[John Iacoletti]

Weitzman was speaking from familiarity  with the 7.65 Mauser.......He knew that the Argentine mauser had a five shot clip that locked forward of the trigger guard....He knew that Just as well as you might know that your car holds 24 gallons of gas.......

Oh, fer cryin' out loud.  You too?  He was telling Sayers what he saw, not giving him a lesson on Mauser design.

[John Iacoletti]

If it had a window, then the rifle wasn't a Mauser.

Unless you're talking about an en bloc clip. Then the rifle would also not be a Mauser.

Weitzman knows what he saw better than you do.

[Mitch Todd]

Weitzman knows what he saw better than you do.

He knows what he saw better than you do, too.

And he said he was wrong about the "Mauser."

[John Iacoletti]

I guess that's what I get for juggling quotes. I was trying to reply this:

The source for that was a Dr James Young who was one of the white house physicians. But, as I've said, he didn't say that the corpsman found the fragment, just that the corpsman showed up at Bethesda with it and three skull fragments in an envelope.

I don't know about that.  I've never heard of James Young.

[Walt Cakebread]

Oh, fer cryin' out loud.  You too?  He was telling Sayers what he saw, not giving him a lesson on Mauser design.

Oh, fer cryin' out loud.  You too?

I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean.....  I don't know who else is using commonsense.....But It obvious to me that Weitznan was familiar with the 7.65 mauser....  Afterall he caught a glimpse of the magazine on the carcano and assumed that the carcano was a mauser. 

 And when he was given a mauser to examine and describe LATER that afternoon at the police department he started by reciting what he knew about the mauser....Thus  Sayer wrote...."Mr Weitzman described the rifle which was found as a 7.65 caliber mauser, bolt action rifle, which loads from a five shot clip which is located on the underside of the receiver forward of the trigger guard."

Why can't you see this John?