content_output-017_4 (Q5486)

This was clearly established at the 1875 gun trials, when Mr. Pape, who advertises himself as the inventor of the system, exhibited guns against Mr. Greener's winning weapons, but although he had then got choke bores of some kind, like all the other makers, which he had not the year before (if our Leicestershire trials were the test we believe them to have been), he could not, any more than they, get shooting from them that approached that of Mr. Greener's specimen guns of almost all the various bores.