DRN> VH> It depends -- I've stood under a tree and had Number 6 shot rain 
own
DRN> VH> through the leaves, where someone else had shot at a squirrel only
DRN> VH> about a hundred yards away.  Those Number 6s had reached terminal
DRN> VH> velocity rather quickly.
DRN> How do you know the shot wouldn't have picked up a bit more speed if
DRN> it had fallen farther?
Simple, terminal velocity for lead shot would only be about 2.5 times 
that of ice of the same diameter.  That's not very fast.  Deer would 
regularly traverse the drop zone of my friend's local trap club, every 
now an then you'd see a deer get hit-  it would jump a little, look up, 
and go back to grazing.
Simply put, that shot is going as fast as it's ever going to get the 
instant it leaves the barrel.
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