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Re: Best Way to Shoot the Balls??

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
a trebuchet would totally win the cool award
Im trying to think of an effective way to rifle the ball in a mechanism similar to the softball laucher.
there are also many hybrid ideas to the softball laucher, including tubes with belts in them, multi-ball lauchers, "gatling guns" etc etc etc
We thought about rifling which could be introduced by a series of small, slightly angled, opposing wheels, but realized there is a problem. These balls are not equally balanced. They always roll to their heavier side where the injection point is. Spinning the ball will most likely produce an unpredictable wobble depending on where that heavier side is when it goes through the shooter.

The Trebuchet would definitely be cool, but difficult to load! The counter weight is a problem too. Maybe a dangling compressor.
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