A platform was constructed at the proper height and distance. If he can acquire more ammo perhaps he should loan it to Karl for a The Sixth-Floor Museum in Dallas has actually replicated the shot from the Book Depository window. M can shoot a 7.35 accurately enough, though I think the malfunction he suffered resulted from shooting it left-handed. We know from a two-gun match on InRange that Mr. The owner complained he couldn’t hit anything with it but his colleague Mike would borrow it and punch out bull’s-eyes. I was allowed to handle it and the bolt worked plenty fast. It was home-sporterized, and I think scoped. This expert came up with some surprising explanations for the JFK evidence on hand, but I refer you to the book.Ī relation of mine owned one of these in 7.35, purchased over-the-counter for less than $20 from the same Chicago sporting goods store that sold to Oswald a 6.5 by mail order. Their expert made all three hits and beat Oswald’s time. Bill James, more famous as a baseball statistician, in his book “Popular Crime,” mentions that CBS news hired a ballistics expert to examine the evidence, setting up a target track and shooting position that replicated the Dallas scenario. Oswald did train as a sniper with the USMC. I don’t think any rifle could have fired a rifle on a downward trajectory into a man’s back, and have it exit out of his throat, higher than its entrance. So I find the arguments as to whether the Carcano “could” have fired the three shots which the Warren Report states were fired a bit academic. It is slightly deformed, but otherwise in good condition. It is most likely that this is the bullet, CE399, which was found on a gurney at Parkland Hospital and which is called the “magic bullet”. I would offer the explanation that a bullet hit him in the back and did not exit his body. The doctors at the autopsy did find bruising to the top of JFK’s lungs. So you will see that a bullet fired some 60 feet above JFK, travelling on a downward trajectory, is alleged by the Warren Report to have exited his throat, just above his collar and tie. They only made that assumption the next day, when they were writing their report. The doctors could not connect this wound to JFK’s neck wound. The doctor who examined this back wound at the autopsy, Pierre Finck USA, said it was on a downward path, and also that his finger only went into it a short way. It was adjacent to this third thoracic vertebra, that is, three vertebra below his neckline, in his upper chest.
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In reality, the wound in his back was six inches below the collar of his suit. The result is that in the Report, the drawing shows a wound in the rear of JFK’s neck. Instead he was given an oral description of where the wounds were. To this end, the Warren Commission did not show any photographs of the wounds, but instead drawings, made by an artist who himself did not see any photographs. For the assassination scenario of the Warren Commission to work, these two wounds have to be made by the same bullet. It is only over the subsequent years, as more information has become known to the public, that trust in the Warren Commission’s verdict has declined.Īs a case in point, it is a fact that there is a wound in President Kennedy’s back, and another wound in his throat. When the Warren Commission Report was delivered in 1964, the American people were quite happy to believe the official story that the assassination was carried out by one man who fired three rounds from a Carcano. Thanks to InterOrdnance / Royal Tiger Imports for providing this carbine from their Ethiopian imports for the video!
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I think it is a massively under-appreciated rifle. The M38 is handy, inexpensive to make, and comfortable to shoot.
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It retained the 6-round Mannlicher clip that was fast to load, and both the 7.35mm and 6.5mm cartridges were closer to intermediate cartridges than other contemporaries like the 8×57 and. The use of rifles beyond 300m was almost unheard of during the war, and the fixed sight both reduced production overhead and also made the rifles more durable and soldier-proof. I submit that this configuration was the ideal one for World War Two, and Italy was the only nation to really adopt a reality-based rifle design. This design was adopted as the M38, and it featured side-mounted sling attachments, a folding bayonet more like a fighting knife than the old sword type, and did away entirely with the long-range adjustable sight, instead opting for a fixed 200m notch. They also planned to replace the original M91 rifles with a much more compact and more modern short rifle for the infantry. By the late 1930s they settled on a new 7.35x51mm round, based closely on the existing 6.5mm cartridge case. During the 1920s, Italy was concerned about insufficient lethality with their 6.5x52mm cartridge, and began experimenting with larger bore diameters.