Mr. Liebeler. A step?
Mr. Price. A step along in here building it up to a larger diameter and another one here, which you can see.
Mr. Liebeler. It gets larger by degrees as it comes back toward the action, is that right?
Mr. Price. That's right, and that's the reason I thought at the time that it had been placed in a lathe and turned down, but I'm not too familiar with the foreign made guns and I have learned since then that all Mauser rifles are that type—they are made that way.
Mr. Liebeler. With these steps as they come back toward the action?
Mr. Price. That's right.
Mr. Liebeler. Is this the same kind of scope that you saw on the rifle that Oswald had, the fellow you thought was Oswald?
Mr. Price. Yes; it had large receivers at both ends and I believe, now, I might not be right about the brand name, but I believe it was a Tascosa, since I examined it—it was a Japanese made scope. They make several different brands of those things—it could be any of them, but I believe, as I remember it—it was a Tascosa.
Mr. Liebeler. So, if you took the sling off this rifle and took the top wooden piece off the barrel, you think it would look pretty much like the one that this fellow had?
Mr. Price. Yes.