JC. Mrs. Brister was white-knuckling the steering wheel in an unhardened Estate Wagon but was also representing the speed over the ground of a flying target. Admittedly, a duck can't elongate to the width of a bed sheet to catch all the shot but can sure as hell be in a position relative to late-arriving pellets to catch a few. If size of pattern improves your chances of a hit, then it's pretty easy to hypothesize that stringing (a "wider" pattern as a 2D representation of the time of arrival of all shot made grossly obvious by the movement of a very large plane or target normal to the passage of shot) would also improve your chances IF the shot population of stragglers was large enuf to put the required 3 to 5 into a crosser. Big and probably not very practical IF. I personally think the "garden hose" analogy is useful if not misunderstood. A lot of shooters pull away, or "follow thru" or flick ahead AS IF a sudden acceleration of gun speed would disperse shot laterally; no harm in what they believe to be the case as the action puts the muzzle ahead of the bird. Another case of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

jack