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Re: Shooters: What have you learned?

One thing to keep in mind when prototyping is the amount balls squish change the distance they go (at least for this year/this type of ball), so to build a prototype which can quickly go from one distance to another can help see what you want to do. For us we had a top shield and bottom shield, with a space between the bottom shield and the shooter wheel to make contact with the ball and different amounts of spacers between the top and bottom shield to adjust the amount of space between the bottom shield and the wheel.

Not sure if that makes sense but hopefully it does.
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