300 CHOKE-BORES. 



To Mr. W. W. Greener, a noted gun manufacturer 

 of Birmingham, England, is due the credit of being 

 the first to introduce the merits of the new system to 

 the shooting pubUc of Great Britain. In the spring 

 of 1874 he first began his experiments, and in his sub- 

 sequent interesting work on " Choke-bores and How 

 to Load Them,"' recognizing the system to be an 

 American invention, and with the general mistaken 

 impression caused by Faburn's teachings, he says, un- 

 der the caption, ' ' The American Plans of Choke-bor- 

 ing.'* " The original plan adopted by the Americans 

 was to enlarge the barrel immediately behind the muz- 

 zle, commencing from half to one inch from the end 

 and extending three or four inches toward the breech. 

 This enlargement is somewhat egg-shaped and is ac- 

 complished hy inserting an expanding boring tool. 

 Another plan is to make a kind of double choke by 

 enlarging the barrel from the first choke in a more 

 elongated form. The third plan is to bore the bar- 

 rel's cylinder for nearly the whole length, contracting 

 it at the muzzle." Further on he says he considers 

 this last-mentioned plan the best, and he is most cer- 

 tainly right in his opinion. 



Keenly alive to the importance of its effect on the 

 future of the gun trade, Mr. Greener set himself assid- 

 uously to work to develop the capabilities of the (to 



