I do sense you ask.
Understanding shot string is vitally important to shooting sub-gauges. It stands to reason. If you look down into an uncrimped .410 shell, that pellet in the center of the top layer of pellets is going to exit the muzzle at whatever speed and it will go in a straighter (as straight as a round object can travel) line to the target than the pellet at the bottom of the wad cup up against the side of the bore. That bottom pellet will be deformed and it will leave the muzzle later than the front pellet. Both are equally as deadly. Understanding what they will do in flight is just one more way I can understand the power and workings of the shotgun I'm swinging.
I like to understand how things work. It makes me enjoy using them much much more. Forgive me if that's ignorant, but it's how my mind operates.
Stan, great post yet again.
