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If the gun shoots where you point it, and the shell has the right size pellets in it, does it really matter how long the shot string is? When the difference is 5 feet or so, no. It happens so quick the target can’t avoid the one that is a 5 feet or so longer. If anything a longer may help if you are a little ahead. all it takes is 5-7 pellets of the right size to kill cleanly. More pellets if you use smaller shot, in that cumulative ft pounds of blunt force can also kill cleanly if you put enough into the Bird.
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Shot string length may help with a crossing duck or pheasant for those that actually lead the bird. Head on it would make no difference.
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Everyone leads a crosser if they want to hit it....
My error....you are saying the same in a different way.
Last edited by battue; 10/30/22.
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And very few birds or clays are missed by shooting in front. Even less likely for less experienced shooters.
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Shot string discussions are about as definitive as the population density of angels on the head of a pin. Yes...
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Shot string discussions are about as definitive as the population density of angels on the head of a pin. Yes... And this discussion is par for the course. 
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Which would you consider most important.
Pattern density or shot string length?
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The video is interesting, I agree. But I guess I don't understand the significance. All pellets hitting at once, or a shot string 8 feet long. Seems to me to be the difference between the shot hit all at once or virtually hitting all at once. An 8 foot long shot string traveling at 1,220 fps. The difference between the first pellet hitting and the last pellet hitting is going to be in the 1,000ths of a second. I guess it's poissible that some dove or clay or something could make it some distance between pellets in a string, but don't see it likely that it will make it far. Seems to me that some hole in the final pattern is far more signficant that how long it takes for the shot to make that pattern. Since the time it takes to make that pattern is, for all practical purposes, the same whether the shot string is 8 inches long or 8 feet long.
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Just makes for conversation....
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Which would you consider most important.
Pattern density or shot string length? I consider how evenly distributed a pattern is more important than what most refer to as pattern density.
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Which would you consider most important.
Pattern density or shot string length? I consider how evenly distributed a pattern is more important than what most refer to as pattern density. A pattern of #8's or #9's is going to have less "dead spots" than a pattern of #4's or #5's. Guess it all depends on the gun, the choke and the ammo.
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