CVLINDER AND CHOKE-BORE GUNS. 19 



a gun from a first-class maker, one need never fear of 

 having any miss-fires. 



CYLINDER AND CHOKE-BORE GUNS. 



By a cylinder gun is understood a gun that is bored 

 in accordance with the ordinary or old plan — its diame- 

 ter throughout the barrels being the same. 



In Greener's " Choke-Bore Guns " we find that : " A 

 gun constricted at the muzzle to the extent of 5,000th 

 part of an inch may be called a modified choke ; by in- 

 creasing the choke to the 30,000th part of an inch, we 

 get the full choke." 



"A 12-gauge cylinder gun loaded with IJ oz. (270 pel- 

 lets to the ounce) by weight of No. 6 chilled shot, fired 

 at a target 30 inches in diameter at 40 yards, will make 

 a pattern of 100 to 120 ; a modified choke 140 to 180 ; 

 and a full choke 180 to 220." 



" It is claimed that the choke-bore will always make a 

 pattern so evenly that it is impossible for a game bird to 

 escape when within the killing-circle ; but with the cylin- 

 der, at every five or six shots, the pellets of shot will so 

 spread, that a bird may escape." 



" The best pattern made by a cylinder is from twenty 

 to thirty-five yards ; up to forty yards, the pattern be- 



