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Re: Motors for ball launchers

using rifling for a round projectile is more or less useless, as the ball spins through the air it makes a larger and larger spiral. The concept only seems to work on cylindrical objects. At the distances we will be engaging at I doubt that it will be a huge problem. The only spin that I am concerned about is through the horizontal axis.

my $0.02