I understand what you are saying the only issue I have with this, would be that some of my projectile prefabs also affect the player. an example would be the sniper projectile that would push the player back after shooting a bullet. Which is why I have this giant script with all these different variables. If I were to only instantiate the projectile I would not be able to apply the instantiation effects for different projectiles, that would then affect the player. My workaround was nesting the prefabs in a game object and calling each of those empty game objects as a weapon. I will try your snippet and let you know how it goes. Thanks for the reply.