Drilled - 5x4, Pin under ring
Cg kicked, small low Xhole

Coverstock - box coverstock, shiny

Punisher is a pearl version of the Nemesis, and in my opinion, a much better version of the Slayer. Pearls generally dont roll well for me, especially shiny. The normal conditions I face are fairly slick with a hooking track. The first few shots I noticed alot of length with hard arc backend. I had some trouble getting a consistant reaction (a problem i have with most pearls), so I touched the surface very lightly with a grey scotchbrite... the surface was still fairly shiny but not the glass-like box finish it had. The reaction was much better and carry was really good.

The centers I usually bowl at use very dense oil's, pearls usually dont read the lane as well as solids or particles. But Im pretty happy with this one after some use, the more I use it the better its getting. I bowl several tournaments so I know it'll have its place after they breakdown some. Its a good ball for someone with slow ball speed or someone looking for a tournament ball for late blocks.

I am a Tweener with 25 km/h and 330 RPM and I've played a 15lbs. Punisher for 2 months now.

First I thought the ball was a little bit inconsistent; it also left many, many 10 pins. Then I tried out to put some more Revs in the ball and -WOW !- it awoke :

Use the ball on dry or lightly oiled lanes ,  take at least 300 RPM in it and
it goes down the lane looong, then suddenly it makes an extremely arcing hook with very hard hit and impressive pin carry.  

It`s spectacular to play under these conditions !  

High Revs players who have problems on dry or light oiled lanes with too early ball reactions will love this ball.

I gave the ball a solid 9 out of 10; good job big B !

         
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I will be getting this ball soon. i will post more info when i try this ball out.
Im using impact zone ball now.Im hoping to replace it with this ball. I bowl using the second arrow. stright first the i start moving left.when it start hooking too much i use the third arrow. I guess you figure out im right handed bowler by now. any how you think this ball for me?
thanks

This is a good ball to have in your arsenal 16lbs drilled for righty.Mediums revs.Medium speed,High track.Well I was playing 17bd going up ball going down on 5 bd and when you think it's not coming back. Right in the pocket.I played 1 game with this ball and I was impress. The ball stay's on line very good. Good hitting far as hitting the pins.A couple of times I was experimenting and standing on 25 and swinging out to 10 right in the pocket.I remember at this angle I had 4 strikes in a row. I was very impress ball from Brunswick. First time with this ball first game 208
1. UI
2.AI
3.Time Zone
4.Punisher

Getting A Rampage this week for dry condition, to go long.I am still thinking of getting Impulse from Brunswick.I need a particle in my line up.

15 lbs. 3.5 inch pin. Drilled with pin above bridge, CG at about 60 deg., weight hole 1 inch below PAP on VAL. Works out to be a 6" x 4" drill. Had it for about 6 month. I have kept it in box condition. Very good looking ball, by the way.

For the most part the ball gives me what I wanted, good length, hard break and a step down from the OI. It is not as angular as I expected, but have been pleased, anyway. This ball works best for 2 different situations. On a fresh wall shot with good backends, and on a broken down shot where the shot is 4th arrow or deeper. In other words, it needs help from the lane on the backend. Construction is not as strong as the Inferno line, so deflection will be more, but this is not a bad thing with the conditions it is used on. Not as strong as the OI, a good step down when the OI is too much.

For me, the ball works good with different releases.

I have not used it on any real tough conditions. I don't think it would work well, with this drill and in box condition, under a sport or flatter pattern.

Overall, I am please with this ball, as long as it is used under the right conditions.

i like this ball its excellent for medium oiled lanes it hooks a good amount and has quite a hard hit however sometimes it tends to leave ten pins but on the whole a good ball so if you want a ball for medium oiled lanes this is the right one

Lane Conditions - 3rd game on a fresh shot, just your average THS on synthetic, threw strong solid reactive the first two games, nobody playing where I was.

Drill - 5" pin so about 1 1/2" above and a little to the right of ring, CG in palm

I reviewed this once before but deleted it to provide more detail here. I had this ball previously and replaced it with this one, almost identical to the first. Jeremy Vitug mentioned this ball is one dimensional...I would have to agree, but then in my hands, pearlized skid/snap reactive balls are, and the "one dimension" this ball has, for me, is out of this world. This is my "game 3" ball when people with a smaller arsenal are still sticking with whatever they were throwing in games 1 and 2 and alternating between going through the nose or getting hung up in carrydown. I will go as far to say, with the caveats above, that this is the best skid/snap pearl reactive Brunswick has ever made, and I have thrown or seen quite a few of them. The coverstock, as you might recall, is a slightly tamer version of what appears on the Command Zone, and the core is the excellent BVP core which causes a ball to stand up very hard off the dry. What you get is a ball that gets through the heads almost like plastic, has a small read period at the end of the midlane, and then snaps hard in the backend. This ball comes back from ANYWHERE that you can find dry, which is both good and bad...it's good that you get back to the pocket, but some of the entry angles are so sharp that you may leave some 9's. When that happens, just move your whole line left a little bit and as long as you're still finding dry at the end, you're striking.

The flip and length of this ball make it very good for when I have to go 4th arrow or deeper when the heads are drying up. I've never had a ball I liked so much from that deep.

In summary - one dimensional? Maybe, I get two dimensions from it (drying track shots and super-deep swing the lane shots). But sometimes you don't need all the versatility in the world. Sometimes having a ball that does one (or two) things extremely well is exactly what you need. This ball won't fit in every bag, but if you like the BVP line or need something a little tamer than what you currently possess but don't want to go as extreme as the Dry/R, this may be the ticket.
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