I have a dumb question that I suspect can be easily answered by more informed people. Assuming that plastic sleeved cushioned wads result in little or no pellet distortion from a cylinder bore, what are the actual physics that cause pellets to disburse in a generally even pattern? I can easily understand that air resistance could cause individual velocity difference and result in shot stringing and pellet collision resulting in outliers but what force causes pellets to be deflected radially from the core shot mass?

Last edited by cpa; 03/18/17 09:33 PM.