09-03-2014, 08:40 AM
This is ground breaking material, and I'm embarrassed I didn't see this years ago. I have been trying to get my hands on a box of Western Cartridge Co. 6.5mm Carcano cartridges for years to measure the diameter of the bullets. Living in a remote part of northern Canada makes this somewhat difficult.
And here, I have been looking at the WC's evidence photo of CE 399 for years and not cluing in to the fact there is a scale in centimetres in the same photo. And just for a laugh, Frazier even admits to measuring the bullet diameter, and comes up with 6.65 mm! What an idiot!
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Of course, I think Frazier either rounded his measurement off or else he was not reading his micrometer very closely, as 6.65 mm = .2618" and there were never bullets made in this diameter. What is more likely is the bullet measured 6.69 mm. I confirmed this by comparing the bullet diameter in the photo to the scale in the photo and I found the bullet to be .669 centimetres or 6.69 mm in diameter, and possibly verging on 6.7 mm. This would make the bullet .263385" to .263779" in diameter. Rounding .263779" to three decimals gives us .264"; the diameter of the bullet loaded for every 6.5mm rifle in the world except the 6.5mm Carcano. I think we have all the proof we need that the WCC cartridges were loaded with undersized bullets. Small wonder the Carcano had such a bad reputation as an inaccurate rifle!
Not only was Frazier mathematically challenged, I believe he was somewhat lazy, too. If he measured the bullet and found it to be 6.65 mm in diameter, there is no way he could convert that to be .267". He already had the number .267" from a book, and never did the actual conversion from the Metric.
I'm not sure how many of you understand the implications here. If the 6th floor rifle was shooting cartridges loaded with bullets .264" in diameter, instead of the necessary bullets .268" in diameter, there is no way the rifle would have been shooting accurately enough for even an expert marksman to have been able to have hit JFK.
And here, I have been looking at the WC's evidence photo of CE 399 for years and not cluing in to the fact there is a scale in centimetres in the same photo. And just for a laugh, Frazier even admits to measuring the bullet diameter, and comes up with 6.65 mm! What an idiot!
Of course, I think Frazier either rounded his measurement off or else he was not reading his micrometer very closely, as 6.65 mm = .2618" and there were never bullets made in this diameter. What is more likely is the bullet measured 6.69 mm. I confirmed this by comparing the bullet diameter in the photo to the scale in the photo and I found the bullet to be .669 centimetres or 6.69 mm in diameter, and possibly verging on 6.7 mm. This would make the bullet .263385" to .263779" in diameter. Rounding .263779" to three decimals gives us .264"; the diameter of the bullet loaded for every 6.5mm rifle in the world except the 6.5mm Carcano. I think we have all the proof we need that the WCC cartridges were loaded with undersized bullets. Small wonder the Carcano had such a bad reputation as an inaccurate rifle!
Not only was Frazier mathematically challenged, I believe he was somewhat lazy, too. If he measured the bullet and found it to be 6.65 mm in diameter, there is no way he could convert that to be .267". He already had the number .267" from a book, and never did the actual conversion from the Metric.
I'm not sure how many of you understand the implications here. If the 6th floor rifle was shooting cartridges loaded with bullets .264" in diameter, instead of the necessary bullets .268" in diameter, there is no way the rifle would have been shooting accurately enough for even an expert marksman to have been able to have hit JFK.
Mr. HILL. The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car. Mrs. Kennedy was completely covered with blood. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head.
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964