VF: I follow, but remember that a cylinder shotgun charge hits the air as a clump, a choked charge as a string.
The pellets don't have individual clean air flow until they are some distance apart, thus I doubt that Magus is the initial destabilizing cause. I don't discount a contribution to dispersion, though.
Lead pellets are no longer round after the bore travel, their ballistic coefficient must vary considerably and certainly they acquire spin.
Increased dispersion with speed isn't surprising, since drag is a V2 function.
The baseball analogy doesn't play though, except for a kunckle ball. A spinning baseball or golf ball is an air pump. It accelerates a mass of air and bends the local flow exactly like a wing or a sail. The 'break' is caused by the transition from laminar flow to turbulent flow. Stand behind a driving range and watch a golf ball 'soar' after a period of ballistic flight, or watch a home run start to fly when the backspin bites in. A smooth ball won't do that, not to say that it will fly straight it just won't move in a predictable direction.
Ken, the postulated 'age' of the universe depends on the Hubble Constant which varies depending on who you read. It assumes red shift is entirely a result of recessional velocity, an assumption that increasingly is very much in doubt. Never mind that Hubble never insisted this was so, or that his original data was flawed, it just fit in so well with the preconceived notions of the originators of the 'expanding universe' theory that it gained traction.
To briefly continue, an expanding universe is not observed it is only inferred using questionable assumptions and we are then told that it does not apply on a 'local' scale. In fact, M31 is blue shifted and will collide with our galaxy in a few billion years. Galactic collisions are not uncommon, and that rather puts the lie to L-CDM. Without expansion, there is no need for a beginning or age for the universe and steady state works fine. Give gravity a finite range, even a huge one, and the need for 'dark matter' disappears. Don't laugh, many of the patches to BBT are much more absurd.
Sorry I got cranked up, but it's too cold to shoot.
