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What exactly is involved in jug-choking a barrel?
Marc Adamchek said:What exactly is involved in jug-choking a barrel?
I don't think the general builder is set up for it...some special equipment involved along with the know how.Marc Adamchek said:Thanks, Bill. Is it something most contracted builders can easily do, or is it a harder process?
http://www.traphof.org/People-Stories/fred-kimble.htmlIn the Beginning
Born in 1846, Fred Kimble, a duck hunter from Illinois, was credited as being the inventor of the choke-bore shotgun when he was 22 years old (1868). He fist picked up a shotgun when he was 13 years old and was considered to be one of the best duck shooters in the country when he was 18. His invention revolutionized the art of wing shooting, and he began challenging anyone at live pigeon shooting. After winning a numerous amount of consecutive matches and taking home the Illinois State Shoot title three years in a row, everyone wanted his choked gun.
I have an article collected from a British magazine many years ago, The Gun Collector, which casts serious doubts on Kimble's claim to have invented choke-boring. In it is the statement that one Russell M. Faburn tried to imitate one of Kimble's early guns, misunderstood what the choke was and patented a honing system to make it. His choke sounds like jug-choking, and he patented the method in 1872. The regular restricted-muzzle type choke was apparently developed during 1870-71.GreenMt said:I would agree that jug choking was unusual in 1860.
You may be right about the timing, that's what I always thought was the case. But, in the article I referenced it sounds very much like jug-choke got it's start about 1872, before Greener got involved.CoyoteJoe said:I can't prove but believe jug choking came along after Greener's work and was just what it is today, a method of adding choke to a barrel originally bored straight cylinder.
Behave now, tg. :grin: if we don't talk about jug chokes, what are we going to talk about?tg said:If that is the case where does that put it as a valid topic for the time frame of this forum?
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