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Updated: 21:12 GMT, 20 May 2011
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The Legendary Shots are a group of basketball fans who
go to great lengths to get the ball in the net -
literally.
The Alabama friends recently scored a basket from around 150
feet - potentially a new world record - but it was actually the method of the shot that pleased them more than the distance.
The nine-strong gang built a wooden catapult which they used to fire the ball across a street and
through the rim.
See the video below...
Long shot: The nine-strong gang built a wooden catapult which they
used to fire the ball across a street and through the rim
Sky's the limit: The ball can bee seen flying through the air after being launched
It took them most of the winter to draw up
plans for the catapult after seeing one on YouTube, and then make good on the blueprints
by building it.
It cost around $300 to build and is powered by a pair of 110-pound
springs, according to Yahoo! Sports.
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They decorated it with their own Legendary Shots logo but despite
the hard work it turned out that the catapult was more
scattershot than supershot.
In the hoop: From another angle the boys watch with eager anticipation to see if their invention has worked
With the ball hardly ever getting within two feet of the
rim, it took them six Saturdays - shooting the ball over and over for around seven hours a
day - before they struck lucky.
And there was luck involved. In the video below there are audible
groans from the group as the shot initially misses again - only
for the group to celebrate wildly when the ball bounces up and into the basket.
The group comprises Evan, Jeffrey, Grant, William, Chase, Bryan, Alex - the team
member credited with making the slingshot score - and Carson Stalnaker,
in whose back garden the video was shot.
More than a three-pointer: They go berserk when they see the ball
drop seamlessly into the net from 150ft
Their reaction to the success shows they consider it their biggest hit to date, a
none too considerable feat from a team which has previously made videos of themselves scoring with shots from a moving rollercoaster,
a reverse bungee ride and a hot air balloon.
'We're The Legendary Shots, and we make amazing basketball trick shots for you to watch,' says the group on its YouTube profile page.
The group, which has been used in TV adverts in the U.S., may even want to put themselves forward to the Guinness Book of World Records.
The longest successful basketball shot recorded by the body was measured 104ft 7ins.
It was made by Elan Buller at Campbell Hall Elementary School in North Hollywood, California,
on February 16, 2011.
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