Hevi 13 question

[zeke632]

Is Hevi shot normally round or are the pellets in an individual shell various shapes? My son cut a shell (Hevi 13,  3" 12ga. 2oz  #6)  open to find tear drop, round, pellets fused together etc.
Is that normal? 

[chipper]

Its normal, Nothing to worry about, they will still shoot great.

[DC101]

That is normal for Hevi Shot and does not have any effect on patterns/performance.

You will be happy with his choice in shells.

[captin_hook]

Yep, its normal. Let em rip, you'll be happy with their performance.

[zeke632]

Okay.
Thanks guys.
We have been using them for a couple of years and very pleased with them.
I had never cut a shell open before, as expensive as they are and as well as they do, I didnt see any reason to open one up.

[mudhen]

Yep, snowmen, no two pellets alike, about 7-8 different size shot, all normal!

I think they use the floor sweepings after clean up 

No matter, it works 

mudhen

[FullChoke]

It is normal if you have no QC.

Envirometal actually tried to justify the wonky shapes of their shot by launching a marketing campaign a few years ago stating that their irregular shapes helped the shot fly straighter and with more stability, you know, just like a football thrown with a spiral or the awesomeness of a rocket ship. No kidding.

Hogwash is the cleanest word that comes to mind.

FullChoke

[gobbler74]

If we could just get it hexahedron shaped our patterning disputes would be over....

[hunter177]

It's normal for those shells. I absolutely love them!

[decoykrvr]

Interestingly, on turkeys which I have X-Rayed and done necropsies, there is a preponderance of the non-spherical and figure 8 shaped fused pellets retained within the head and neck.  I assume this is related to the tissue resistance against the odd shaped non-spherical pellets.  Once a pellet passes through the turkey, the remaining energy within the pellet is essentially lost, relative to killing the bird.  However, when a non-spherical or fused pellet enters the bird it dumps a larger amount of the energy giving it greater lethality.

[bigdale]

I agree with the above. I think it would have to punch harder