I note on the setting chart for the Multi-charge bar for shot, that each time the size is increased the bar has to be "Open" up larger for the same wt, except they actually weighed charges using commercial shot. As explained in the instructions there are spaces where a switch was made in shot alloy & some of these have a very slight reversal as change was made from magnum, Hard, shot to heavier chilled shot. The scenario of splitting wood is really not related at all to packing small granules into a given volume, thus not sceintific at all. The most space efficient of all is of course a solid. As the size is dropped & still placed in a given sized measure efficiency drops very fast. As size continues to go down a reversal occurs & efficiency starts going back up, but of course will never return to that of the solid. Ask any "OLD" farmer who ever carried a sack of corn to the grist mill to have ground, it will always go back in a smaller sack, even with an honest miller.
