i got my fury 4 1/2 pin to pap under fingers. when i first got it, it rolled ok but was smashin alot of corner pins. i kept the surface box for about a week and it didnt cut it for me. i put some high gloss polish on that baby and it brought it to life. what an amazing ball. pin down should work great but you might need to bring the surface up.

I'm reluctant to say anything about the Fury since I've only thrown one for a single game, but.............

I have a chance to buy one slightly used for very little. I'm lucky in that my proshop guy tries a lot of stuff, and since our spans are almost identical, I'm able to test most of his experiments myself. When he doesn't like something (the Fury in this case), he gives me first crack at purchasing.

Anyway, the ball is drilled with the pin in the center grip below the fingers, with the CG kicked to right and a small weight hole in the thumb quadrant. The surface had been lightly hit with Rough Buff. This is one of my favorite patterns. I have it on a Lane#1 Enriched Uranium, a Track Arsenal Artillery and an Arsenal Reactive. It generally provides good revving in the mid-lane with controlled aggression on the backend.  

So I was excited to take the Fury out to a fresh THS and give it a go. I tried to stay inside the oil line to avoid any burnout issues. What I immediately liked was the controlled arc the ball produced. It didn't cover as many boards as I thought, but my first shot hit light and I got an impressive mixer strike.

From there it was all downhill. Unless I hit flush, it was a guaranteed 10 or 7. The ball had a terrific mid lane read, but didn't have the continuation I would have expected. Maybe a drill with a higher pin and/or taking up the surface grit a little further would help, but I didn't get the 'warm and fuzzies' I expected. I don't have the time or energy now to try and make it work. Different styles will probably be happy with this piece.  

     


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Interesting... My pro-shop guy said that Brunswick suggested weaker layouts since this ball is supposed to be so strong... How do you guys throw the ball? I have pretty mild speed with a ton of revs on the ball... Thanks for the input, definately looking at this ball for heavy oil conditions over the summer...

Well if it does burn up too quickly couldnt i bring the surface up to 2000 or so and get it to read a little further down the lane? I used to be a huge Track guy and now im trying to carry stuff from different companies and since this ball was made for heavy oil and from Brunswick i thought it would be good to try for that kind of condition... Also, if i tried light polish or a longer pin layout wouldnt that also help me? Im switching to 15lbs as well to help me with my speed control. Thanks for the help everyone, keep it coming!

I can not tell you what to do, and I won't try.  If you don't throw the ball with good speed, don't try.   The ball at 2000 still burns up on a 40ft shot even strait down the middle of the oil, its kind of unreal.  I don't know if anybody will ever really see the oil that this ball is made for.  Honestly, I wouldn't recomend the ball.

Keep in mind, I am working in a proshop, ALL of the equipment I throw is Brunswick and I can't say enough good stuff about their equipment.  

Here is what I can say for the Fury, if you drill it for oil, you better have Exxon Valdez making a stop by your house before you bowl.  The best drillings we have seen with the ball for a somewhat heavy shot was the ball at 4000 grit and drilled pin down, cg negitive in the palm, simple and weak but the ball worked well.   If you kick the CG, I think you will kick yourself.  The ball rolls early and never makes the corner.  That is another real complaint on the ball from customers, they think big hook means big backend, which is certainly not what you will see with this ball.  

We have a frequent tourney bowler that has drilled 3 or these, he gets them to work with surface adjustments and his loads of axis tilt, he loves the things and doesn't throw it overly fast, so you might like it, but I will say the majority won't.   Power players seem to have the best luck.

Think of a super carbide bomb without a flip cap... kind of unspectactular.  With a cap this ball could be a nicer piece.

Had mine drilled pin to right of ring cg stacked.  Coverstock was OOB.  Have only got the opportunity to roll 5 games with this cause there isn't enough oil around here to use it much.  Out of the 5 games have shot 247, 227, 246, 266, and 225.  Last 3 games where in a blind doubles tourney where I took 1st, 2nd, and 5th in the same tournament shooting 737 scratch.  Needless to say I like the ball.