Originally Posted By: Chuck H
While I understand the rationale to relate this to Bernoulli's principle, I'm skeptical that it would be applicable in this debate. The Remington data shows that MV increases with increasing constriction. There is nosource of additional energy. So, how else can we account for this?

I'm looking at the stress/strain issue on the choke as more of a single impact event, where the shot is traveling in a direction and then deflected in another. I believe the pellets act independently as fluid particles and not as a solid mass. I suspect the point of highest stress will be somewhere along the cone. If you are right, it should be exactly at the cone entrance where all pellets would have to change direction.