14-09-2014, 10:17 PM
Albert Doyle Wrote:A good lesson in not trusting evidence from experts. Maybe Frazier took a caliper reading from a slightly warped side of the imperfect magic bullet. There's no excuse for the math error though.
All you would really need to know is that the available Western Cartridge ammunition was .264 standard.
Was the .2677 diameter Carcano bullet the same width as the Carcano lands?
I think we went over this before. Frazier spoke about the Magic Bullet, CE 399, being slightly flattened on the base and, for this reason, he also measured the unfired bullet in the cartridge found in the chamber of C2766 on the 6th floor. Of course, after the FBI purchased their own WCC 6.5mm Carcano ammo, they could measure all the bullets they wanted to. I don't believe it was a math error. I believe Frazier measured the diameter of the bullet at 6.65 mm and, instead of converting to inches, simply looked up the diameter in inches in a textbook.
If the WCC bullets really did measure 6.65 mm, then they would have been ridiculously inaccurate in a Carcano rifle, as 6.65 mm = .2618" or .262".
As Dave Emary said in the article, the twenty Carcano rifles he measured were all between .268" and .269" across the grooves. The measurement across the lands in a Carcano is .256", as it is in all 6.5mm calibre rifles.
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