Lots of mention of choke here, but only Cylinder, Modified and Full
Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters by Alfred Marshall Mayer in 1883
http://books.google.com/books?id=IJcCAAAAYAAJ&q=choke#v=snippet&q=choke&f=false

Found this reference to Full and Modified choke in the 1884 edition of The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsman, Notes on Shooting on p. 465
http://books.google.com/books?id=TYFCAAAAIAAJ&q=choke#v=snippet&q=choke&f=false

Again, only Full, Modified, and Cylinder in 1895 The Art of Wing Shooting: A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Shotgun by William Bruce Leffingwell
http://books.google.com/books?id=e34EmE3...p;q&f=false

Doubles listed in the 1908 Sears catalog, including Aubrey, Baker, Remington, Smith and Ithaca, reference only “Choke Bore.”

"Improved Cylinder" IS used on p. 465 in American Game-bird Shooting by George Bird Grinnell in 1910
http://books.google.com/books?id=bZcyAAAAMAAJ&q=choke#v=snippet&q=choke&f=false

So who, presumably in the U.S. (as in England the constriction of .010 would be "Quarter Choke"), named "Improved Cylinder", and when??

Last edited by Drew Hause; 04/18/11 07:19 PM.
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