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Are there any special considerations for the outside pins?

Yes, these pins may need some special considerations.  Now depending on where you are standing for your strike ball, a move for the outside pins, (7, 4, 6 or 10) may not be possible.  For example, as a right-handers, let’s say your target is the second arrow (10th board), and you leave a ten pin.  (And believe me this will happen.)  I need to move seven and one half boards to the left.  But most likely the ball is going to go in the gutter because of the angle.  Here is where the eight and five board rule comes into play.  In the same scenario, I am going to move my target to the third arrow (15th board to shoot the ten pin.  I start by moving my feet eight boards to the left because I am changing my target to the third arrow.  Then I move an additional seven and one boards for the ten pin.  Now, hopefully, the gutter will not come in to play.

When you shoot at a single pin spare there is some margin of error.  As you can see from the picture below, you have the width of the pin plus two halves of a bowling ball to hit this pin.

Now when you shoot at a seven pin you loose most of the width of the ball on the left because of the gutter.  For a ten pin, you lose the one on the right.  Plus there is the psychological factor of the looming gutter to deal with.

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