Remarkably, 3" extra travel in 6 feet is 50fps at shotgun velocity.
This is a wonderful topic for further investigation.
Certainly, photographic technology has advanced since Lowry.
If we could figure out a way to 'tag' a few individual pellets, perhaps with a contrasting color or reflective index, then we could determine where the pellets went in the cloud compared to their initial position.
Do the rear ones in a choke pattern catch up with or over run the front ones? Which ones diverge from the string first and by how much?
I'd like to see a cloud from a Cutts with a spreader tube, a Tula, and both WS1 and the Beretta skeet choke too.
Perhaps we could obtain a grant from the National Science Foundation. Oh... wait...
