Curved Shooter help

[WarehouseCrew]

Can someone comment on the RPM and disc compression that works well on their curved shooter? We are only getting about 8' with our shooter and not sure what variables we should be focusing on. We see some teams shooting almost full court and we are a long way from that. We would like to shoot from behind our pyramid.

Our shooter is a curved shooter using a 2010 8" FIRST Wheel, Rubber Treaded (am-0420) driven by a chain (not sure of gearing) from a 2.5" CIM motor (eg. not direct drive). Does it work best to gear up he motor (eg. have wheel spin faster than motor so motor doesn't have to be run at full speed and have faster RPM recovery after a shot).

We added some Roughtop tread (AM-0523) to the curved fence and this increased our distance from 5' to 8'.

Thanks.