Silencers, Sniper Rifles and the CIA

[Bob Prudhomme]

Long time, Bob! (WB) Do you have a drawing or picture of what a sabot-loaded round looks like inside the cartridge? What I think that article suggests is that the cartridge is somehow modified to use a smaller caliber bullet than designed, as a load. (I think the idea is that the shooter could thereby disguise the type of gun used.) You're the guy with the experience in this field. Would you explain to us why that can, or can't, be the case?

The question I always ask proponents of the sabot loaded cartridge theory is, what would be the purpose of loading a fired slug from a 6.5mm Carcano rifle into a cartridge made for a larger calibre rifle? The M91/38 short rifle (Oswald's alleged rifle) has a muzzle velocity of 2200 feet per second (fps) and, when combined with a 162 grain slug, the result is a weapon more than capable of killing people at the -100 yard range of all of the shots in Dealey Plaza. If the rifle that did the actual killing was a 6.5mm Carcano but, instead of being an M91/38 short rifle, it was an M91/41 long rifle, that muzzle velocity would increase to 2400 fps. In comparison, .308 calibre bullets regularly have muzzle velocities in the range of 2800 fps, and are considered more than adequate for shooting deer out to 200 yards and beyond.

Carol Hewett stated in her article that there was something about the spent cartridge found on the roof of the Dal-Tex Building that indicated it had been handloaded or loaded with a sabot. I would really like to know what it was about that cartridge that gave this impression.









Not quite sure how the slug remains centred in this shotgun shell. Also, it would be necessary for the shotgun owner to possess a second barrel for his shotgun that had rifling grooves on its interior, in order to impart spin to this slug to stabilize it.

Just imagine the fun the Bubbas would have, firing .50 calibre Browning machine gun tracer slugs from their duck hunting guns.