[jonascord]

That particular rifle is like most other bolt action military weapons, in that the stock and forward hand guard cradles the barrel to within a few inches of the muzzle. Removing the barrel and action from the stock buys you a few inches at most. You, know, I've never heard anyone ask if Oswald had taken the bus into downtown a few days before and taken the rifle in then, and stashed it.

You can count on one constant with all these "theorists." NONE of them know from Shinola about guns, shooting, ranges, bullet behaviors or ballistics.

Any Marine who has been to Dealy Plaza will tell you that we are talking Very Short Range and that once a bullet hits something it's going to VEER in some unpredictable fashion. These two facts explain all the contortions that conspiracy whackos use to invent ghostly killers on grassy knolls.

[logician2u]

Any Marine who has been to Dealy Plaza will tell you . .

Yeah, well, there are exceptions.

Very interesting book, BTW.