Let me say I was looking for a ball to fit between my Raging (drilled Label leverage- 4X5 pin at the side of my ring just above the "safe zone" line), and my Monster frenzy (drilled 5X5 pin above ring)......
I got to throw the inferno last night- finally....
I threw the Raging the first game shooting 244, then towards the end of the second game it was burning up early and shot 207. I was playing from about 25 pushing the ball out to 7/8 and killing the pocket. By the end of the 2nd game I was trying to throw the Raging harder and it was still coming in high. Grabbed the inferno smiling and thought "great, here we go".......Moved a little to the right, got my speed back down where I'm comfortable and left the 1,2,4.....wow....OK, not quite as strong as I thougt??? Moved a few more boards to the right and got to the head pin, just barely.....Struggled thru the last game for 165.....DOH!!
Well lets just say it didn't give me what I expected....Now I'm not saying it was bad, just not what I expected. In reality it is a touch stronger than my frenzy, but not much. It is drilled 5X4.5 (pin over ring, cg kicked out about 1/2" from grip center, no balance hole needed- It is a 5" pin out ball though). The only thing I did to the surface was hit it with a little Track clean 'n smooth which is a 1500 finish, just to take the shine down a hair, as I don't seem to have success with a highly polished surface ball.
I guess I was hoping for it to be more aggressive... Of course there was some spotty carry-down, but with all the reviews of how much of a hooker this was I was thinking there should be more....
Guess I'll be sanding/scotch briting it more.....
As always hindsight is always 20/20....maybe I should have got a 3" pin and drilled it more like my Raging??? Then again, I wanted a control ball...and should definately have it! Maybe this is a good reason to get a Warp Zone and polish the Raging a little......LOL!
Edited on 12/31/2003 9:47 AM