Originally Posted By: BrentD
And we all have shotguns that we have patterned with different chokes. Clearly, different things happen in each. I am not so sure I trust fluid dynamics to tell me much of anything about chokes in guns. I trust it pretty well in garden hoses.


Good thot! And a choke is not a nozzle. The shot mass is not liquid. The choke effect is the result of a number of forces acting on a collection of discrete and interacting bodies

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