The original Hevi-Shot looked atrocious, but patterned phenomenally. Sort of flies in the face of "roundness is good". They have won the turkey patterning contest (I forget the details) like 13 years running. I have patterned Hevi-Shot Duck, Classic Doubles, and Turkey 13 in addition to the Goose and it all performed very well on paper. You're smart to pattern it out of your gun.