Is it plausible Oswald could have completely missed the limo with his first shot

[Benjamin Cole]

Like everyone else, I have puzzled over what happened to the three audible shots of 11/22. There may have been inaudible shots (simultaneous shots, or shots from a rifle with a silencer). Some witnesses heard four shots, but the most common account is "bang....bang-bang."

It does seem unlikely the TSBD6 sniper would miss the entire limo, and moreover the shot that hit a concrete curb hard enough to cause a fragment to chip off and cut James Tague's face is usually left unexplained.

The SBT-LNT theories are only theories, after all.

My best guess is first audible shot hit JFK, the second hit JBC, and the third JFK, as recounted by the Connallys, and which, in my layman's view, is seen in the Z-film.

I understand other JFKA buffs have different views.

Caveat emptor, and draw your own conclusions.
 

[Lance Payette]

You probably have not done much shooting if you can't recognize how much more difficult the early first shot was compared to the to later an longer shots. At 88 yards or less, distance is hardly a factor at all. He was firing almost dead down range with little relative movement of the target to the line of fire. That was not true of the first shot which also required shooting from an awkward stance with nothing to brace the rifle with the window sash likely partially obscuring his view.

I've always wished somebody would do a reenactment of that first shot just to see what challenges it would have presented. I'm not asking for a duplication which is impossible. Just a re-enactment to highlight the difficulties.

In my 20's, I lived on my father-in-law's remote ranch where about the only amusement was shooting. I owned a .30-06, a .308, an old Mauser and virtually every caliber of handgun from .22 to .44 magnum. I had a Rock-Chucker reloading setup and was about as "into" shooting as one could reasonably be. That being said, I see no reason on earth that Oswald would have taken a shot from "an awkward stance with nothing to brace the rifle with the window sash likely partially obscuring his view," would have missed everything if he had, and would have then proceeded to place two shots pretty precisely on target - and I believe the best evidence and explanation is "he didn't." But then, I do have the advantage that I'm not trying to prop up some pet theory.