NorthWolf,

My Mosin is a fairly nice 91/30 type with 24" barrel and retroffited cruciform "sks" style folding bayonet.
Editted to add: Where finances and availabillity allow I tend to pattern alot of my choices in firepower off of the finn's... I prefer the PPSH 41 to the Suomi though lol... but that's a matter of the frightening power the Tokarev round packs.

Now onto the whole lefty shooter thing... you can learn tricks to make yourself just as quick even firing lefty. I know this as I am a lefty.

This is not to say I believe the official story. It's just to be fair people need to realize that there's a reason why the Oswald theory shouldn't be totally discounted.

[edit on 24-9-2008 by roguetechie]

If you go there to Dallas it will change your mind. The 6th floor window to the poink JFK started getting shot is pretty damn close. Plus a miss is normal since he had to adjust fire from a elevated point. He walked the rounds up into JFKs head. He was a good shot, but no sniper. The film footage makes the area look big. If you go there you will see how compact the area is.

The Whole incident can be debated either way very effectivelly. However I'm personally inclined to believe Oswald wasn't the only shooter/was a flat out patsy. There is too much gray surrounding it for me to believe any other way.

Ranger, If I am not mistaken the Moisin Nagant rifles that were of Russian and American manufacture were not made in Finn land but were captured and kept after an invasion by Russians. The type that you have described saw a lot of use as a sniper rifle in Northern I Corp when I was in Vietnam but I never saw one with a folding bayonet but it doesn't surprise me. I bought a full size model when I was thirteen for $9.88 and it was new and in new condition. My parents were surprised when I brought it home. I got it at Sears about 2 blocks from the Texas Theater where Oswald captured.

[edit on 31/08/2008 by hypervigilant]

Hyper I am aware that my rifle was not MADE by the finns however they are responsible for the remarkable accurizing job it recieved way back when. And you are correct the folding bayoneted mosin is the m44 however with much time and patience I retrofitted an sks style spike bayonet to the weapon.

Yes they were accurate enough to walk off with the 1,000 meter shooting competition at the 59 or 60 winter Olympics. It will really reach on out and more than touch someone, for sure.

Which is why I bought one to start with... the gun is capable of accurate fire to distances I cannot fire accuratelly. I wonder about people that buy sub moa super guns but can barelly reliably bullseye a hundred yard target.

In regards to The Rifle that was found by a Dallas police officer at the sixth floor window. It was described as a bolt action Mauser and the cop that gave the description worked in the gun department of Jay's Hardware Store on Singleton Blvd. in Dallas, the highest volume gun dealer in the city at that time. I was told by some old shooting buddies that there was no way that he would have mistaken a Mauser for a Carcano. I was listening to a radio when this was reported not long before the announcement that the President was dead. Some how the Carcano and 3 empty shell cases that appeared to have been sat in place were later found by Feds and was said to been missed by the first to arrive. There are so many stories and opinions for a reason, some that warrant investigation and other that don't. New books, speculations and theories will keep popping up to just add to the confusion, while those that perpetrated this attack are still doing what they have always done, and that is to commit more acts of high treason against the citizens of the world in quest of a new world order. If anyone ever gets a direct hit on the true story, it will just be ignored and dismissed as just another theory. In, fact it possibly has already.

If you can, go to Dallas and see where it went down. Very easy shot even with a crappy rifle. The miss is normal, as he had to adjust from a elevated location. The rest of the rounds he just walked up into JFKs noggin. It did not help JFK that the car never sped up. The whole thing to me looks more like the Secret Service spent too much time drinking and chasing ass the night before. Could Oswald pull it off.....Yes, no doubt at all. Did he? We will never know. Ruby made sure of that.

Seems like there are a lot of good shooters here. I guess my question is this, if it is indeed possible to fire the shots in that time frame, is it also probable? Especially considering that the first shot missed (which most snipers seem to agree is the most accurate shot you can take) and that the scope was supposedly defective?