Trajectory B/C

[anon y mouse]

Is anyone here not using a bungee or medical tubing? I'm interested if other materials can get better inter-shot consistency.

[starpug]

Is anyone here not using a bungee or medical tubing? I'm interested if other materials can get better inter-shot consistency.

Excercise tubing, it's made to return to shape.

[kp9ssa]

what was the best score you got in trajectory ever

[starpug]

I think it was 250. 0 close target, 250 far.

[shankster]

Yeah, I was curious about what you guys are getting for scores too? I'm getting aroung 150(Division B), but I dont know what national scores are like, as this is my first year that I get to participate (last year i competed as an alternate).


Trajectory broken:
2 times
Bridges broken:
17
Planes built:
3

[cypressfalls Robert]

national scores are more like 0/0 or at least 2 pins hit

[shankster]

Been having trouble with the design this year. We used a PVC pipe and and ram-rod thing (more like a smaller pvc pipe inside with a nice cap for the ball to sit on ) with eyebolts in the sides for the slingshot bands to attatch to but we've broken the eye bolts multiple times along with a rubberband once so we've had to reshoot everything quite frequently . I wish that we hadn't just broken it a little bit ago, as i dont think we'll get EVERY single thing, but we'll get close.

[starpug]

Been having trouble with the design this year. We used a PVC pipe and and ram-rod thing (more like a smaller pvc pipe inside with a nice cap for the ball to sit on ) with eyebolts in the sides for the slingshot bands to attatch to but we've broken the eye bolts multiple times along with a rubberband once so we've had to reshoot everything quite frequently . I wish that we hadn't just broken it a little bit ago, as i dont think we'll get EVERY single thing, but we'll get close.

How did you break the eyebolts? The solution for the bands is simple don't push it to hard, if it depends on the bands being extremely stretched out then I might suggest getting two identical bands and testing with one then putting the other in before comp. Preferrably you test and fire at comp with the same elastic but sometimes that is impossible because of the design.

[cypressfalls Robert]

have the event proctors at nationals, state or regionals ever placed the elevated target at 2 meters?

[starpug]

I heard that the people in Pennsylvania did that. You'd have to get on of them to confirm.