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Originally Posted by Eoanthropus Dawsoni
Oswald's shooting was good but not what I would consider remarkable. As far as the distance goes, it was an easy shot. The only real challenge was getting off accurate multiple shots in the given time. The rifle he used was fairly accurate, but the operation of a bolt action rifle makes target acquisition a bit problematic when firing rapidly. However with practice a competent shooter can pull that off without too much trouble. The people who make the claim that Oswald's shots were impossible are obviously not experienced with rifles. And Oswald was a Marine. Even a bad shot by Marine Corps standards is still a damn good rifleman.
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It was a common belief among the professional investigators and the press that Oswald was aiming for the head. If that’s the case, then it was a difficult shot. But if he was aiming for the center of the silhouette, the center of JFK's upper back, as he had been taught in the Marines, then it wasn’t such a difficult shot, since the theory of aiming for the center of the silhouette is that the aim can be several inches off target, even up to a foot or more, and still score a hit. You can look up some of his old Marine targets and see that they were silhouette targets, and he fired on them at distances up to 300 yards. His head shot in Dallas was about 265 feet.