Thread: Shooters: What have you learned?
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Re: Shooters: What have you learned?
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Originally Posted by Hawiian Cadder View Post
Consistency can be gained through LOTS of compression. We ran our competition robot with 4-5 inches of it in order to ensure precision.
Really? We did about the same thing with our original shooter, and we found DRASTIC variation between shots because of its explosive exit as it uncompressed...
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