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2025-09-14 Fifth Column

Charlie Kirk Assassination! How Easy Was That Shot? Anyone could have made it at 200 yards using a deer rifle. A gun guy explains

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Posted by Elmomoter Mussolini9149 2025-09-14 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1772 views ] Top

1 That doesn't make any sense either! Jew haters hate Jews, the PM saying anything will not convince them one bit.
So this was aimed at people who could be convinced by the denial.
Who the hell are these people? Why would anyone think Israel would murder their best friend in their most important ally!
And why would they be convinced when Netanyahu says, "we dindu nuffin!"
None of this makes sense. We've all gotten pretty good at analyzing these kinds of situations over the years and this isn't following any kind of pattern.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-09-14 04:22|| 2025-09-14 04:22|| Front Page Top

2 Why the neck?

Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-14 07:14|| 2025-09-14 07:14|| Front Page Top

3 /\ Why the neck?

Likely an intended head shot. Excellent video on bullet drop.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-09-14 08:08|| 2025-09-14 08:08|| Front Page Top

4 Eg. 30/06 @175 yds shooting a white deer.
Over penetration exit wounds are common. I have shot deer and seen shoulder entrance and exits thru ribs with round still traveling some distance.

Given the CK shooter and shot location. Yes it strikes me as odd.

Posted by Clong Glomoger6057 2025-09-14 10:41|| 2025-09-14 10:41|| Front Page Top

5 I'm an experienced hunter, and no, not "anyone" could have made it at 200 yards.

A rifle that shoots accurately with selected ammunition has a dispersion circle of two centimeters at best at 100 meters. At 300 meters, this is already six centimeters. Added to this is the “shooter dispersion,” which I estimate at approximately twelve centimeters at 300 meters under hunting conditions – this corresponds to around four centimeters of shooter dispersion at 100 meters. Six centimeters of weapon dispersion plus twelve centimeters of shooter dispersion – that's a total of 18 centimeters! This is the minimum size of the target area of the game you want to shoot at 300 meters.

You can therefore calculate the maximum shooting distance depending on the size of the lethal hit zone for each type of game, as well as the dispersion of the rifle and that of the hunter: This means around 200 meters for roe deer.

Note that you'd be aiming at a stationary part of the body. The head of a speaker would not be stationary. And the lethal hit zone is quite small.

It was not an easy shot. Doable for a person with shooting experience, but not easy.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-09-14 12:16|| 2025-09-14 12:16|| Front Page Top

6 EC, it's also possible that it was a lucky shot. He may have been aiming somewhere else, like center of mass.

Posted by Rambler 2025-09-14 12:29|| 2025-09-14 12:29|| Front Page Top

7 If it was a body shot that almost missed...?

Posted by James the lesser 2025-09-14 12:33|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2025-09-14 12:33|| Front Page Top

8 Do we know for a fact that there was only one shot?

Posted by Matt 2025-09-14 12:38|| 2025-09-14 12:38|| Front Page Top

9 Rare by now. Have not seen one in decades, but still a possibility.

Columbian Mauser in 30/06.

Note: "Columbia also bought New FN50 model Short Rifles ( 24 in. BRL) And Gendarmerie Carbines ( 18in. BRL) IN .30 CAL IN 1951-52."

Posted by Besoeker 2025-09-14 13:08|| 2025-09-14 13:08|| Front Page Top

10 I recall early on someone commenting that Charlie was wearing a vest and the neck wound was a ricochet off the top of it as he was leaning back? Anyone know about the postmortem forensics yet? Just a thought.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-09-14 13:39|| 2025-09-14 13:39|| Front Page Top

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