Can anybody provide proof of a successful reenactment of Oswald's feat?

[Walt Cakebread]

If JerryF, JohnI and you want to believe the Carcano was a "POS tutti fruitti rifle that was falling apart", and that a scenario with one full miss and one wounding shot before the fatal strike indicates a "cracker jack sniper", fine with me. There's no known cure for Warren Commission Derangement Syndrome; sometimes a rare "miracle cure" comes from within.

Jerry, I don't know what your agenda is ...BUT... I will wager what ever amount of money that you can afford to lose that the tale about Lee Oswald using that old carcano to murder JFK, from that so called "sniper's Nest, is a huge pile of BS.   

The only two witnesses ( Brennan  and Rowland) who actually saw a man with a rifle behind the windows of the sixth floor said the rifle they saw was a HUNTING  (aka  high powered rifle) and one of those men said the hunting rifle had a large telescopic sight mounted.

And this is just fact #1 for starters.....   

[Jerry Freeman]

.... fine with me. There's no known cure for Warren Commission Derangement Syndrome....

WCDS-- is that what Organ has had all this time? Anyway...glad to hear it is ''fine with him''
I would like to rename the topic to... Can anybody provide proof of a successful reenactment of Oswald's ALLEGED feat?

[Bill Chapman]

Possible, however I would have to wonder, as I wander, if all three shots were fired by a "patsy". That is, of course, if there were only three.

Oswald screwed up yet another job. Same goes for @Tippit: As a patsy, he was only supposed to fire warning shots at poor dumb cops. As for the theatre, he damn near shot more cops [CLICK] when all he was attempting to do was surrender the weapon since he said it's all over now and that he wasn't resisting arrest.

[Walt Cakebread]

"Old carcano". The Carcano was about 23 years old and in dry storage for 18 of those years. It had the same bolt-action technology armies relied on all over the world. There was a post-WWII sea change towards the assault rifle, based on strategy not the bolt-action being obsolete overnight.

Both witnesses are problematic. What do you think a high-powered rifle would look like? Would it have a compressed-air pump attached to it? A small jet engine? Klein's Sporting Goods, who were in the business, advertised the Carcano as high-powered. And they were advertised as hunting rifles.



The rifle/scope size ratio of the Carcano from Klein's is comparable to others offered at the time.

Wow!...Yer desperation is hanging out a country mile, Mr O.   I'd wager that if you asked 100 men what kind of rifle is a "high powered" rifle at least 75% would tell you that a high powered rifle is a big game hunting rifle.    Most folks know the the term high powered rifle is synonymous with big game hunting rifle.   

[Bill Chapman]

Kennedy was definitely 'big game' to Oswald

[Jerry Freeman]

In those Klein's ads----
You could get 3 Italian carbines for the same price as a 1 walkie-talkie

[Ted Shields]

2 shots in 8 or 9 seconds, slow moving target, fired by a qualified sharpshooter from 190 to 265 feet. Yeah, not too difficult.

[Jerry Freeman]

2 shots in 8 or 9 seconds, slow moving target, fired by a qualified sharpshooter from 190 to 265 feet. Yeah, not too difficult.

Why not really overstate it? A marksman..sharpshooter...expert sniper and give up another second or so?
One thing about bickering with the grubs...they will wear you down with experience