Help with projectiles not hitting entities

I working on a mod, and one of the new items is a type of gun*. The projectile it shoots goes a little faster than vanilla Minecraft arrows. But the issue is, most of the time when my projectile comes in contact with an entity it doesn't deal the damage. I've turned on hit boxes to see if they actually collided and they do. Btw I'm using the trigger on the item to shoot the projectile not the built in ranged item checkbox. I'm also using neoforge 1.21.4