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Re: Prototype Small Wheeled Shooter

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
Sooo.... Is anyone else's small wheel shooter consistently pulling right? Or, atleast, pulling toward the wheels? Our is, and my working theory is it's because the wheels fall away and the wall doesn't. So the frisbee springs off the wall, which makes it pull towards the wheels. I'm thinking about replacing the end of the wall with something the same diameter as the wheel. Maybe even try bolting a wheel down on the other side. You'd probably lose some distance, but I think it'd straighten out your shooting.
We just stop the wall at the center of the wheel seems to work all right, it does pull a little towards the wheel but the spin pulls it back the other way a little. It's consistent enough for us.
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