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Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

4 40-lb CF springs?! Now that is a tremendous amount of force! Do you know if you really need 4 of them (i.e. assuming that do actually improve range, how much does that range get help you?)? Seems like it'll mostly just be adding wear/stress, given that most teams that I know that are using CF springs are using ~40-100lb of force.

We started with 2, but it wasn't really cutting it for us. We mostly wanted the extra power to make truss shots cleaner and stationary shots more consistent, but we've seen a big jump on range as well. 2 springs forced us to shoot in the middle of the colored zone, 4 lets us shoot from just inside the white zone, and there's still room for us to optimize the shot further.
Edit: And Tyler beat me to it.