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[SNIPERBBB]

There is more than on plate design out there and if not buried correctly, it can hit the pure black part.

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB

There is more than on plate design out there and if not buried correctly, it can hit the pure black part.

I wasn't asking if it was possible, but rather how it was obvious to the PU when it hits the black-only?

[SNIPERBBB]

You can tell by the way the ball reacts. On a beveled plate it's really easy.

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB

You can tell by the way the ball reacts. On a beveled plate it's really easy.

That's how you can tell it hit the black. But, how is it obvious it hit the black only?

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Dakota

That's how you can tell it hit the black. But, how is it obvious it hit the black only?

I agree with you completely, Dakota.

It's the beveled ones I was referring to where it's physically impossible to hit black and not white (unless the dirt is dug way down). If a plate is made differently, such that it's more easily possible to hit black without hitting white, it seems to me it would be FAR from obvious that it hit black without hitting white.

[CecilOne]

Good Grief ! ! !

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB

Not all plates are the same, nor buried properly. I work and play fields that it's quite obvious where the ball hits black or white.

Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB

There is more than on plate design out there and if not buried correctly, it can hit the pure black part.

These are true statements which is one of the reasons there is just a single interpretation.

During my time, I've seen plates with black borders from about a quarter inch to more than an inch outside the given dimensions; Plates that were one-piece of white rubber with beveled edges within and outside the given dimensions, and have even seen wooden plates with rounded edges

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

and have even seen wooden plates with rounded edges

And some chiseled from brontosaurus shoulderblades too, I suspect.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

And some chiseled from brontosaurus shoulderblades too, I suspect.

Once I saw one made of stone with ten roman numerals on it