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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bdgee: [QB] Glass, I certainly know the supposed difficulties of manipulating a bolt action fast enough to track fire and hit target three consecutive times, even if the target is in motion. I am familiar with Dooley Plaza and the School book depository and know the distances and angles that were involved. I knew those bits of information when, with two boxes of shells bought at Jake Petmecky's on Congress in downtown Austin and the new owner of a duplicate mail order Italian rifle to the one used by Lee oswald, I ventured into the hills west of town to test the notion that neither the accuracy of such a weapon nor a normal rifle shot were up to the task Lee Oswald was supposed to have accomplished. That new owner was mostly inexperiencesd at handling a rifle and, in addition, due to damage by scarlet fever at the age of three, was quite spastic. It took him to a fourth trial before he was able to manipulate the mechanism within the time and perhaps another 2 or three times before he could, within the time, hit the target consistantly. We didn't figure a way to duplicate the movement of the car that carried Kennedy that day, but at that distance, it's movement along a smooth paved street would have not added appreciable difficulty. (For further information, I had no problem with the mechanism or hitting the target within the time, but when a deer appeared and scampered across the hillside into the brush about 125 to 150 yard away, I emptied the magazine without hitting the animal.) Again, I can assure you Lee Oswald was more than the equal of an average rifle shot and I cannot imagin him suffering from buck fever, particularly after having messed up his previous attack on Walker by being hasty. Lee Oswald sincerely believed he was "placed" among us to "guide" us......he had no reason to be nervous. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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