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CHOKE-BORES. 



from England as choke-bores were in reality not 

 cliokes, but bored on Faburn's plan. 



The subsequent history of the process is sufficiently 

 well known. Some gunmakers have discovered by 

 experimenting or otherwise the advantages of the true 

 choke, while not a few still *' stick to the jug," and 

 not wishing to admit their previous ignorance of a 

 subject so important to their business, the majority, I 

 am sorry to say, will strenuously assert that they un- 

 derstood the whole matter years and years ago. 

 While one is telling you the story, cast your eye care- 

 fully about the shop and see if you don't discover a 

 Faburn expanding bit. 



The method of boring the true choke I will now 

 endeavor to explain. The best and cheapest bit, and 

 that most commonly used, is simply a short bar of f 

 to -J inch square steel, about six inches in length, 

 shaped like the annexed figures, the corners 

 ground true and sharp, and welded to a handle of 

 •J inch round iron the length of the barrel. To one 

 side of this bit a thin flat piece of pine or other 

 soft wood, rounded on its outer side in conformation 

 with the bore of the gun, is fitted ; and between this 

 wood and the bit are placed a sufficient number of 

 strips of thin paper to cause the whole to fit the bore 

 rather tightly. Thus fitted, the bit is inserted in the 



