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Re: Average Feet per Second

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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner
Ken,

My rough (in my head) calculations say that you will go about 18 ft/s in low gear, and about 72 ft/s in high gear. I think you would want to gear it down a bit.

-Chris
You might want get some new batteries for your head - those numbers don't pass the sanity test. You're going to cross the field in 0.67 seconds?

We're gearing for 7-9 fps this year; we've found that at much higher than 12 you start to lose control.
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