King's comment about fear of superwide dispersion suggests that maybe no one has used a big enuf bedsheet to really know if there are 10' wide dog-unfriendly "patterns". I've always heard that bore scrub and setback created the worst fliers (erratic shot paths) and I assumed this implied wide dispersion or at least departure from a populated pattern. You can count shot all day for other ends; in this case you prove nothing if you can't get a count total equal to the number of shot in the shell. I've clipped the connections between petals on some other wads but never removed petals. It seems to me that doing so only "opens" patterns by removing shot from the central core, that is, dispersion of the useful non-flier core is nearly the same diameter as that produced by a petaled wad but percentage in useful pattern is lower.
jack
