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Post by snakeriverrufus on Feb 2, 2006 23:52:11 GMT -4
Is such bullet fragmentation common? It is not common for a jacketed solid to fragment. All three of those bullets should have looked like the so-called magic bullet, if they were in fact all solids. Some of the bullets may have been soft point expanding bullets.
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Jan 21, 2006 18:32:27 GMT -4
They did not do it right on the ice bullet mythbusting. A better way to do it would be to use a shotshell slug mold. Then load the ice slug as normal using a lead shot cup. Using a smooth bore barrel, the shot cup should protect the slug from breaking up like their rifle bullets did. Of course, I would much rather use my carcano to shoot something from more than 25 yards away than to use an ice slug from a smooth bore shotgun Ranb But an ice slug still must go through the constriction of the choke.
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Jan 17, 2006 0:57:18 GMT -4
The consensus was that it was caused by a fragment from the third bullet.Who were the people that made for a consensus of that opinion? :)Does it matter at this point in time? Any fragments would have much less velocity since the impact of the fatal bullet was directly to the skull bone. :)Would the reduction be enough to allow safety glass to stop the fragment? It was also described by the three witnesses as a round bullet hole. How could a fragment make the bullet-sized round hole that one could have "put a pencil through"? :)It's fairly common for a non-spherical to make round holes in safety glass
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Jan 5, 2006 21:27:42 GMT -4
There is one thing I could never figure out about the assassination. The conspiracists claim the rifle Oswald supposedly used was not up to the task, it wasn't accurate enough and took too long to be re-fired. So why didn't the CIA or whoever it was supply their 'patsy' with a better weapon? They also say he owned an expensive Minox. Why would they give him an expensive camera and a cheapo rifle? The mannlicher/carcano was a fully servicable rifle and the shot was only 80 yards. Don't let the CTs mis-lead you about that. The rifle in evidence was traced from the dealer to Oswald.
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Dec 12, 2005 23:48:28 GMT -4
Be careful, guys. Turbonium is being tricky here.Thanks there Joe. I'll note that he's been busy twisting my words too. No where did I say that those that gave their opinions were CT's, I said that opinion, no matter how expert, is trumped by fact. Even if Einstien, Hawking, Rutherford and Newton all said that in their opinon if you dropped a hammer from shoulder height onto your bare foot it would do no damage, it wouldn't stop the Universe frm acting in a very specific way. Only in the world the CT's dream up can anyone's opinion be equal to, or greater then real physical results. Also note how the expert that I cited became his by simply adding Masood's name. 'experts like yada yada and[/b Masood ayoob
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Dec 8, 2005 23:40:13 GMT -4
The bullets jacket is formed from nose to tail with the flat base of this bullet not being covered by the jacket. The lead particles came from the base of the bullet
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Dec 7, 2005 23:42:57 GMT -4
And yet none of that matters to a true believer
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Aug 19, 2005 15:03:46 GMT -4
posted by turbo I've recovered jacketed flat point, round nose and hollow point rounds that I've load and shot., and on occasion lead solid cast round nose bullets. Medium recovered from game and stationary targets, and ranging from soft to hard material targets.
That gives you some reference, which is good. How many steel jacketed solids have you recovered?
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Jul 20, 2005 22:38:55 GMT -4
That .264" 160 gr bullet should have had enough sectional density to keep it from tumbling. At a guess I'd say the bullet's jacket was filled unevenly. W.D.M. Bell shot over 1000 elephants at the turn of the last century with a 6.5 x 54 mannlicher-schoener. Head shots, the bullets nearly always exited.
edited for typo/srr
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Jul 15, 2005 17:41:04 GMT -4
well as least one similar to it. I'm sure there was one with the computer generated scenerio on NOVA
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Jul 15, 2005 15:21:35 GMT -4
Bob, are you sure that the program wasn't 'NOVA'?
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Jul 13, 2005 15:23:28 GMT -4
turbo posted
That assumption was based on the tainted backyard photo. This is a photo of Oswald in training, shooting right-handed. Not that it matters, anyway, as you will see...
No thatis basedd on LHO's neighbors who complained that he often dry-fired his rifle in the back yard.
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Jul 12, 2005 21:00:20 GMT -4
I'm ephasizing that two sharpshooters stated they could not do what Oswald was claimed to have done. That is the crux issue I see from that article. They couldn't duplicate the shooting, so how could Oswald do it? Or anyone at all? The answer is - they can't. They are simply not able, and have never been able, to duplicate the Oswald shooting in any physical demonstration from the School Book Depository. Any plausible theory must show repeatability. The Oswald as lone shooter theory fails completely in this example. oops, at a shoot in central lake mi. called 'second chance' 1990 or '91 the scene was re-enacted. after the first left-handed shooter did it so did nearly everyone else. Masaad Ayoob published results in the fall of that year in 'American Handgunner' and perhaps elsewhere. So it has been repeated, by nearly 250 shooters IIRC.
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Jul 12, 2005 17:36:26 GMT -4
O.K. my first objection is withdrawn. I found it odd that any marine would not know the gunny's name.
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Jul 12, 2005 15:20:59 GMT -4
posted by tubo Not content with his own critical appraisal, Roberts turned to another, equally knowledgeable shooter. “According to my friend, Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Haththingy,
O.K. if this guy can't remember gunny hathcock's name,, I can't credit his report too much. I've got other issues with his comments,, the tree in the way , difficult for a right handed shooter, etc LHO shot left handed and trees grow
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