Originally Posted By: volleyfire
....if you have a fluid charge or a solid charge that is more stable than square, this is the time to trot it out.

When it comes to solids intended to fire out of a gun barrel, I'd look for a shape that looks more like a Berger boat tail than a square. Supposedly, if a bit of something like water is allowed to fall through the air, it assumes the most stability in the shape of a teardrop. Someone formed the cross section of a square in the shot column before it's fired, it didn't settle into a square because it's less stable in another shape.

Last edited by craigd; 04/15/17 09:28 PM.