Bre'r rabbit, please don't throw me in that briar patch. Assuming Fred Kimble invented choke boring ca. 1880, we have spent 128 years not knowing exactly how a load will perform in a given gun until it is patterned. My assumption has been that teardrop shaped shot would give the tightest patterns, flattened shot would would not give any consistent pattern and round shot should react to the choke the best. The dimpling on a golf ball is present to eliminate the english or waffling of a spinning sphere moving at high speed. If shot does not spin leaving the muzzle then the rounder the better. The only example I can offer is that if I kick a soccer ball dead center and with great force it will not spin, it will dance like a hula girl. A soccer ball is round but has facets. The same ball kicked with moderate spin flies straight. Kick the ball on the right side it curves left visa versa. Peter
