Oswald's Rifle Capability

[Zeon Mason]

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/andrews.htm

Oswald what now? Practiced working the bolt while aiming at the cuckoo in the clock? 

This is why the CBS shooter trial is total garbage, because they were allowed to work the bolt, to be in position BEFOREHAND and knew the track of the target. They didn't have a tree in the way either.  The target was red on a black background and they couldsee the line of the track too.


PLUS, they let them USE an ALIGNED scope 

[Bill Chapman]

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/andrews.htm

Oswald what now? Practiced working the bolt while aiming at the cuckoo in the clock? 

Like Tim has pointed out re Ventura, too bad for JFK that this guy Andrews wasn't the one firing at him that day.

[Bill Chapman]

This is why the CBS shooter trial is total garbage, because they were allowed to work the bolt, to be in position BEFOREHAND and knew the track of the target. They didn't have a tree in the way either.  The target was red on a black background and they couldsee the line of the track too.


PLUS, they let them USE an ALIGNED scope 

Are you saying you know that Oswald's scope was misaligned during the shooting...?

[Zeon Mason]

Are you saying you know that Oswald's scope was misaligned during the shooting...?

Im going on the fact that the only way they could align the scope for elevation was to unsrew the mount itself and insert a shim and then rescrew the mount at a lsightly different angle.

IDK if you can physically damage a scope to only cause elevation mis alignment so bad that it requires adding a shim, but not cause any damage to horizontal alignment and do this in the 30 sec after the shooting, while also wiping prints off with a shirt or rag, and also while running with rifle acroos the floor at 10 ft per sec

[Gary Craig]

[Jerry Freeman]

Are you saying you know that Oswald's scope was misaligned during the shooting...?

It was misaligned before, during and after-------
 

?They [the US Army marksmen] could not sight the weapon in using the telescope, and no attempt was made to sight it in using the iron sight. We did adjust the telescopic sight by the addition of two shims, one which tended to adjust the azimuth, and one which adjusted an elevation?: Warren Commission Hearings, vol.3, p.443.
According to the FBI?s firearms specialist, ?Every time we changed the adjusting screws to move the crosshairs in the telescopic sight in one direction it also affected the movement of the impact or the point of impact in the other direction. ? We fired several shots and found that the shots were not all landing in the same place, but were gradually moving away from the point of impact.?: Warren Commission Hearings, vol.3, p.405.
Problems with the bolt and the trigger mechanism: ?There were several comments made ? particularly with respect to the amount of effort required to open the bolt. ? There was also comment made about the trigger pull ? in the first stage the trigger is relatively free, and it suddenly required a greater pull to actually fire the weapon.?: Warren Commission Hearings, vol.3, p.449. ?The pressure to open the bolt was so great that that we tended to move the rifle off the target.?: ibid., p.451.

A real piece of work

[Walt Cakebread]

Are you saying you know that Oswald's scope was misaligned during the shooting...?

Are you saying you know that Oswald's scope was misaligned during the shooting...?

The scope was MOUNTED askew....  So, even though the carcano was never fired that day,.... YES, the scope was misaligned when the rifle was hidden beneath the boxes of books.