The rifle Oswald should have used

[Jerry Freeman]

Oswald was trained in the M1 which could rapid fire bullets. If Oswald was the assassin, how come he didn't purchase one of these instead?----The M1 is 10 times better than the Carcano.

According to the Oswald did it believers...The Carcano reigned supreme. One could not have asked for a better weapon. You can fire one with your teeth like Jimi Hendrix and bull's eyed from 300 yards!
Of course no one else ever did it.... but Oswald could [so they say] 

[Joe Elliott]

According to the Oswald did it believers...The Carcano reigned supreme. One could not have asked for a better weapon. You can fire one with your teeth like Jimi Hendrix and bull's eyed from 300 yards!
Of course no one else ever did it.... but Oswald could [so they say]

No one says that. And Michael Yardley certainly shot more accurately than Oswald. 16 shots, 16 hits on a moving target the size of a melon. But CTers will still be saying ‘no one else has ever done that’ 100 years from now.

Oswald was trained to hit targets at 200, 300 and 500 yards. When he passed his initial firing tests in 1956, he scored higher than most recruits who passed. And he did so on his first attempt. Most recruits were rated Marksman, the lowest rating. Oswald was rated Sharpshooter, the next highest. In his retest three years later, he still qualified as Marksman on his first attempt, which is what most Marines did in the 1950’s.

The Carcano rifle was perfectly adequate up to 218 yards. The best in the world? No. But perfectly adequate.

[Frederick Clements]

"We don't have any proof that Oswald fired the rifle, and never did. Nobody's yet been able to put him in that building with a gun in his hand." -  Jesse Curry


Fred

[John Mytton]

"We don't have any proof that Oswald fired the rifle, and never did. Nobody's yet been able to put him in that building with a gun in his hand." -  Jesse Curry

Fred

That quote wasn't in Curry's book but Curry did write in his book that they were satisfied that there was enough accumulated evidence to warrant the filing of a charge of murder against Lee Harvey Oswald for the death of Police Officer J. D. Tippit.





JohnM

[Charles Collins]

That quote wasn't in Curry's book but Curry did write in his book that they were satisfied that there was enough accumulated evidence to warrant the filing of a charge of murder against Lee Harvey Oswald for the death of Police Officer J. D. Tippit.





JohnM

“I haven’t committed any acts of violence.”  - LHO

You have to be extremely gullible to buy that tale.

[Jerry Freeman]

No one says that.  Michael Yardley certainly shot more accurately than Oswald. 16 shots, 16 hits on a moving target the size of a melon. But CTers will still be saying ‘no one else has ever done that’ 100 years from now.

Oswald was trained to hit targets at 200, 300 and 500 yards. When he passed his initial firing tests in 1956, he scored higher than most recruits who passed. And he did so on his first attempt. Most recruits were rated Marksman, the lowest rating. Oswald was rated Sharpshooter, the next highest. In his retest three years later, he still qualified as Marksman on his first attempt, which is what most Marines did in the 1950’s.

The Carcano rifle was perfectly adequate up to 218 yards. The best in the world? No. But perfectly adequate.

Stop making stuff up. And BTW I was being fictitious but you are so glued to the lie you don't know the difference. Read this page [but you probably won't] ----
http://michaelgriffith1.tripod.com/poor.htm

[Joffrey van de Wiel]

Stop making stuff up. And BTW I was being fictitious but you are so glued to the lie you don't know the difference. Read this page [but you probably won't] ----
http://michaelgriffith1.tripod.com/poor.htm

Perhaps he won't but I did. Thanks for posting the link to an interesting article. I think what should be added to the paragraph titled "A Valid "Oswald" Rifle Test" is:

* Before firing, the rifle must be disassembled, carried around in a bag for a bit and then reassembled with a dime.

* The scope must be misaligned so that all shots land above and to the right of the target in the cross-hairs.