High Speed Shotgun Shot Photo

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I don't know anything about taking pictures but if you did take pictures of the shot charge further from the muzzle you would see that there are pellets well to the front and pellets to the rear and flyers (deformed pellets) leaving the pattern. If you shot at a stationary target most of the shot charge would land near your point of aim. If however you were swinging your shotgun through a crossing target you would notice an elongated pattern. Not a dense circle with a few flyers. The leed pellets hit first and the following pellets are strung out as though it were the stroke of a paint brush. As we all know the harder the shot the less deformed pellets = less flyers=more pellets on target to do the work.