Posted by RayP(MI) on November 23, 2010 at 17:57:22 from (207.241.137.116):
Actually should read got my doe and buck, twice. This is going to take a bit, so hang on!
I hunt in a oval shaped 16 acre, field surrounded by woods an 2 1/2 sides. A ridge line runs kinda across the middle of the field, gravel filled, not farmable, and twenty or so feet higher than the field surface. Edges of the field drop off another ten to fifteen feet abruptly into the woods.
This evening, I went out in the SUV, parked in a cut in the hill, and got out, loaded the rifle, put it adjacent to the vehicle. Got back in the car, to seek shelter from the cold temperatures and the cutting wind. Turned on the radio to listen to the news. Didn't expect to see anything due to the cold, unpleasant conditions. They weren't done with the news, when I saw a buck in the SW corner of the field, easily 200 yards out. Got out of the car, retrieved the rifle. Walked around the rear of the SUV, leaned my left shoulder against the rear window, acquired the deer in the scope and touched it off. Deer staggered forward about ten feet, wheeled, and disappeared into the woods. Was sure I hit. Walked down to where I shot him and found him crumpled about 50 feet down in the woods. On examining him, I had seen him before - twice, once before season, once last Friday. He had a very distinct set of antlers, A long white spike on the right - twice the height of his ear, a short dark two point on the left, hardly higher than his ear. But what next caught my attention was a part in the hair, almost right down his back. On closer examination, the part was a crease in the skin, rather fresh, which left the skin bare and an abrasion on the surface. Clearly has been shot before.....
Fast backwards to Friday evening. I was in the north east corner of the field, sitting under a bush on the ridge line. Hunting buddy sitting in my blind about 200 yards to the west, near where I had parked the car tonite. Was facing a chunk of woods that jutted out into the SE corner of the woods, about 100 yards away. Suddenly a buck and doe appeared coming out of the woods, coming right toward me. Grabbed the rifle and attempted to acquire a deer in the scope. But they had dropped behind a rise in the field. AND I had forgotten to turn the scope back to low power, making it extremely difficult to acquire them in the scope. Doe suddenly appeared at about 100 feet. Fired, racked another shell, acquired the buck and fired again. Doe went flying past me about twenty feet to the right, and collapsed in the brush behind me. Buck continued past on my right, and was last seen making fast progress across the ten acre field behind me. Elapsed time between shots was probably less than a second. Partner to the right (previously mentioned), thought it was a shot and it's echo, and one heckova echo! Son was on the other end of the farm, 1/2 mile away, heard it as two shots, but thought it was my partner shooting his semi-auto. So in that time I got one deer, and a piece of the second. I'm shooting a bolt-action Weatherby, NOT a semi-auto! The scar on my buck's back is exactly consistant with what would have happened Friday nite.
Now, what does this have to do with JFK??????
There is a computer animation of the asassination scene, showing how it could have happened based on study of the scene and the 8mm video shot at the time. In this animation, one shot caught the president, and then continued forward throught the seat, striking the governor in the back. A total of over 8 seconds elapsed for the three shots. I believe this is consistant with an experienced shooter, with a bolt action rifle. Since only one round accounted for the two wounds, it is completely plausable. If I can shoot two running deer, in a second or so... The other "shots" recorded over the police radio? Echos off surrounding buildings - that's my take. Now there is probably far more background intrigue in the story, but I think one lone gunman could have done this.
Sorry, I have pictures of the buck but no way to post them here!
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