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among the first to extol the new method, and their 

 own shops were placarded all over with '^ wonderful 

 announcements to sportsmen." 



Faburn termed his jug-bore plan choke-boring, 

 thinking it .to be the same as that practised by Tonks 

 and Schaefer, which was so called, and so the jug- 

 bores became known as chokes, and the knowledge 

 and use of them extended. 



In September of the next year, 1873, the interest so 

 aroused culminated in a trial of guns held under the 

 auspices of the Turf, Field, and Farm Association, 

 publishers of a sporting journal of that name in New 

 York City, and this was followed in June, 1874, by a 

 second, managed by thellhnois State Sportsmen's As- 

 sociation at Chicago. In neither were the true chokes 

 represented; and the jug-bores, miscalled chokes, had 

 matters all their own way, though showing some ter- 

 ribly bad breaks. In the first trial, guns of W. and 

 C. Scott and Son's manufacture were pronounced win- 

 ners, though it was charged, with how much of truth 

 I cannot say, that they had been rebored in this coun- 

 try after leaving the maker's hands. The second trial 

 amounted to very little, being made up mainly of 

 guns entered by private owners, m.any of which had 

 been rebored, and could in no wise be considered as 

 fair representations of their makers' abiUty. 



