Any more info on jug choke origins?

[BillinOregon]

I cited this 2015 thread in a response on the shotguns for turkeys thread, but thought I would pull it out in case it is overlooked. Does anyone have any fresh information on when the jug choke was first used? Is the concept really only about 150 years old? That would date it well into the cartridge era, not that the technique has not been used to improve the performance of thousands and thousands of muzzleloading shotguns.

https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/jug-choke-beginning.99334/

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I cited this 2015 thread in a response on the shotguns for turkeys thread, but thought I would pull it out in case it is overlooked. Does anyone have any fresh information on when the jug choke was first used? Is the concept really only about 150 years old? That would date it well into the cartridge era, not that the technique has not been used to improve the performance of thousands and thousands of muzzleloading shotguns.

https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/jug-choke-beginning.99334/

Well that's when it was documented. Could it have been earlier, sure...., but if folks didn't write it down OR more likely if the information was lost as preservation technology wasn't very durable by modern standards..., who can say?

LD

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

It was invented by a market hunter in the 1870s on the Illinois River.

 

[BillinOregon]

Mike, the message is, learn to live with your cylinder bore and shoot it well in a flint or percussion smoothie if you want to be authentic. Jug chokes are farbs.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Mike, the message is, learn to live with your cylinder bore and shoot it well in a flint or percussion smoothie if you want to be authentic. Jug chokes are farbs.

I always wondered what the message was.

 

[BillinOregon]

It's like hiding the Yeti cooler under a deer hide at rendezvous -- no harm no foul if it is unseen.

 

[Trigger]

Don't forget the mag spark and shot cups

It was ounce common to see modern optics and red dots on the TC hawken/ renegade. Every ounce and a while u see one for sale on gun broker. Lol it just looks it's not right