Choke tubes have added a lot of target and game-getting accuracy to shotgunning since their introduction in the 1700s, when European gunsmiths produced choked shotgun barrels.
But it wasn’t until 1866 that one was ever patented, and then it never caught on because people believed that it produced too tight of a pattern.
Finally, in 1959, Winchester
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