Cincinnati Shaper

[dallen]

one of my old army buddies had a 300 Holland and Holland damn thing would try to take your shoulder off when you fired it.

[Rasper]

That's the gun they try to say Oswald used to shoot John Kennedy. At the opposite end of the building, a deputy sheriff found an 8mm Mauser with a scope. That gun subsequently disappeared. So did the deputy. He was shot and killed on a street corner by a sniper soon thereafter.

Richard

[dallen]

kinda funny Oswald used a 6.5 Carcano

[Jammer]

His was modified. Mine was kind of junky, I think I only paid about $50 for it. Ammo was expensive and hard to find so I got a set of dies and reloaded my own. I would cut a groundhog in half.

[dallen]

lot of junkie guns that shoot pretty good, I have Spanish mauser that's pretty junkie looking, not real sure how good it shoots don't really have any place to shoot any distance

[F.C.]

I purchased a WWII 8mm Mauser sniper rifle back in the early 70's for 50 bucks. On a guided hunt I was on, I was the only one locked and loaded to drop a 9-1/2 ft. Kodiak Brown bear when it was full gallop haul'n ass away from us up hill after it had been wounded by a couple fucked up shots the hunter made (both he tried to make as head shots but only blew through it's upper and lower jaw). The hunter shot before he was told to and before anybody else had a chance to off their gear and get ready to back him up. As that bear hauled ass the guide hollered... "SOMEBODY STOP THAT FUCKER!!" My shot was from a good 100 yds and I aimed for the lower spine (as the bear was moving away from us up hill in a straight line, right as it reached its apex and was perfectly in line with my shot) and the bullet hit that lower spine and exited out right between its shoulder blades, thereby paralyzing it from the shoulders down. It did a belly flop on the ground then like a walrus maneuvered back around with just its front legs and then attempted to charge us using front legs only. At that point I told everyone, "THERE... he's all yours, fellas!!" Took nine shots after that with 375 Win. Mags with silver points to divert that sumbitch's charge into an alder thicket roughly 20 yds from us where it stopped and raged for a good 10 minutes before it perished.

Years later while out moose hunting with a friend he spied a huge snow owl he wished he could bag so he could stuff it as he was a taxidermist, but he didn't have a .22. The owl was up in a spruce tree top a good 50 yds away facing us. I told my friend to walk diagonally away from me and draw it's attention by acting like a fool flap'n his arms, hopping up and down and make'n goofy hoot sounds. When I say stop, do so... by that moment I'd be in position. As that owl revolved its head to check back on me I pulled the trigger intending to have the bullet's vaccume wake break its eardrum. Lose an inner ear drum and your equilibrium gets all fucked up, thus the owl tried to launch and fly but could only do spirals and kept hit'n on other tree branches till it reached the ground. By then my friend got to it and caught it and broke its neck. Never drew blood nor lost any of its feathers. I swear, that rifle is surgical, even out to 1000 yds. Best rifle I've ever owned.

[F.C.]

Still got that shooter, by the way.

[Rasper]

From what I can gather from the various interviews I have read with the law enforcement guys in Dallas who were there first, that is the gun that really shot John Kennedy and Gov. Connally, and that later disappeared.

Richard

[dallen]

did this little job yesterday, its always fun working with parts that are so hard that carbide will hardly chew it up.
changed the safety out so that hopefully it will clear the scope.

[F.C.]

From what I can gather from the various interviews I have read with the law enforcement guys in Dallas who were there first, that is the gun that really shot John Kennedy and Gov. Connally, and that later disappeared.

Richard

If you're referring to mine, ya got me concerned. That shooter of mine has bonded with me from the git-go. Back when I got my first divorce she left me in such hock I had to sell everything I could of mine to sever bills she left in arrears. I sold that shooter to my roommate which three months later (after he moved out) his "girlfriend" pitched such a fit over having a weapon in their home, to prove how much he loved her he up and "GAVE" it away to some stranger on the street. A month or so thereafter I was driving through town and saw someone walk'n along the roadside carrying what looked like that rifle. I pulled over, hollered at the guy... "where'd you get that rifle?" The guy gave me a shocked look and dropped it and ran!!! All I wanted to know was "if" it was the one I once had. Since he ran, I figured it must be stolen. I picked it up and saw that it was the very one I originally had (verified by its serial number). Like a good luck penny it came back to me, HAHAHA.... I've never let that shooter out of my possession since. I'd be devastated if it was the one used in that assignation as I'd lose it for sure to the fuck'n feds... and likely be tied somehow to the dastardly deed. How that rifle could have migrated to Alaska after that is speculative but in my honest opinion I'd be more inclined to wager the actual rifle had to have been totally destroyed. Suffice to say, I ain't pick'n that scab. This shooter is mine, not just by rights but by fate as well.