Tommy, are you saying that "Lee Hardly" couldn't save up for a weapon that could accurately hit a target? Ordering a rifle by mail using an assumed name when he could get a gun in person without a paper trail makes no sense WHATSOEVER. I smell a set up. Oswald apparently struggled financially, but this is not logical.
Edwin Walker is 100% irrelevant and what proof have we that Oswald fired a weapon at Walker? Are you saying LHO was an indiscriminate attempted assassin with no political motives? Why was the license plate of the car parked in front of Walker's house blacked out? Even if Oswald fired at Walker, is this necessarily proof of his capacity for political assassination? Doesn't prove squat, especially since Walker and JFK were on different ends of the political spectrum.
The Mauser had "7.65 Mauser" clearly stamped on the barrel according to the witnesses. I believe it was Boone and Roger Craig who reported this.
Then you make a claim about accuracy of ammunition? WTF? Where did you get that??
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Dear James,
1) It's my understanding that, despite the fact that the scope was about four inches out of alignment at 100 yards or so, Oswald's Carcano was quite accurate, and Oswald, realizing the scope was off (after the first shot?), could have compensated for it.
"Unfortunately" for Oswald, he (iirc) hit the wood between two window panes in the Walker attempt, and his bullet glanced the "mast" arm of the traffic light with his first shot at JFK.
2) Can you understand that a bullet with a rounded nose "wobbles" less than a pointed-nose bullet as it travels down the bore of the barrell for the simple reason that it has
more of its surface area in contact with the bore than a pointed-nose bullet does?
-- MWT
PS What's with the crummy attitude, btw?
