Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Smoking is very bad for you, even without bullets. Whitman had a brain tumor and Oswald was a dupe of the right-wing Tejas/Cubano idiocy which Castro shafted. Additionally, if you can do that with a cig and a bullet you should know Oswald/FBI marksmen couldn't with a 6.5mm Carcano. I almost bought one to test my "he didn't do it theory" some years back but didn't. One look at the darn thing and I knew why the Italians helped the Germans lose WWII. Walt Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > This a portion of the "Full Metal Jacket" shooting script that has > the rifle training sequence: > > Shots of the platoon firing their rifles. > > On the third day of our seventh week we move > to the rifle range and shoot holes in paper > targets. > > Later they are grouped around Gerheim. "Does > anyone known who Charles Whitman was?" > Blank faces. > "None of you dumbasses knows?" > Cowboy slowly raises his hand. > "Private Cowboy?" > "Was he the guy that shot a lot of people > from a roof?" > "That's right, Private Cowboy. He shot and > killed twelve people from a 28-story observation > tower at the University of Texas, from distances > of up to four hundred yards." > The recruits look impressed. > "Does anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald > was?" > That's easy. Almost every hand goes up. > "Private Snowball?" > Private Snowball says, "He shot Kennedy, Sir!" > "That's right. And do you know how far away > he was?" > "It was pretty far. From that book > suppository building, sir!" > "Two hundred and fifty" feet. He was two > hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a > moving target. He got off three shots with a bolt > action rifle in six seconds, and got two hits, > including a head shot. Do you know where those > men learned to shoot like that?" > No one knows. Joker raises his hand. > "Private Joker." > "In the Marines sir?" > "In the Marines. Outstanding! Now those > people did not put their Marine training to a good > purpose but they showed what a Marine with his > rifle can do, and before I am through you will all > be able to do the same thing." > > > Now I prefer to do all my shooting with a Leica, but I also know that > I can shoot a bullet lengthwise through a cigarette at a distance of > 50 ft. At least I could 50 years ago. > > > Larry Z > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >