Mr. Ryder. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler. If you mounted, say, 25 scopes or approximately that many during the last 2 weeks of October, isn't it possible that the Oswald scope could have been mounted during that period of time and your boss would not have remembered the name Oswald as being connected with one of those rifles?
Mr. Ryder. Could have, but like I say, he's pretty sharp. He's pretty smart; I mean in keeping up with the business, you know what I mean. In other words, the flow of the work that I had; in other words, he keeps a close watch on it.
Mr. Liebeler. Now you stated that the repair tag had a number on it. Are these repair tags taken off a book with tags with consecutive numbers on them?
Mr. Ryder. No, sir.
Mr. Liebeler. Where do these numbers come from?
Mr. Ryder. We buy repair tags, of course, they have a main base of the tag, just a tag you can tear off and you can tear off—say I have number 41626 of the other piece; in other words, have the right tag on the gun. As far as sequence, we don't use any. We have a box and we reach over, get a tag, put a man's name on it. The same tag is used on reels, rods, outboard motors, boats.
Mr. Liebeler. So there is no possible way in which you could fix the date by observing the sequence of the number on the tag?
Mr. Ryder. No.
Mr. Liebeler. Could you limit it to a period of 2 weeks?