With the factory high-gloss polish, higher RG, and lower differential, the Blazing Inferno is much tamer than the Inferno. It will get down the lane on shots where the Inferno will hook too soon. It is not a big back-end ball. It's more of a control ball. Most drillers who had experience with the original Inferno were warning buyers not to use layouts with aggressive pin positions. It appears the opposite is true with the Blazing. Brunswick mentions this on the drill sheet. I changed the surface on mine to a rubbing compound finish, and I prefer that to the super-polished cover. I threw it yesterday in Napa - first time I've bowled in that house. It was a house with Brunswick Anvilane synthetics, and the shot was a medium oil house shot with crisp backends and infinite bounce area on the edges - no out of bounds to be found anywhere. As expected, the Inferno was playable just about anywhere inside 15 and swinging out to the dry, but carry was suspect on flatter hits due to it using up energy quicker. The Blazing Inferno destroyed this shot though. It was much cleaner getting down the lane, didn't over-react in the dry, and the carry was excellent. I was happy to see this, as I was not thrilled with the ball on first impression. My home center (only other place I've thrown the Blazing) does not have the crisp backends and there is out-of-bounds on shots thrown too far right too soon.
You need to be careful when you plan a layout for the Blazing Inferno. Be sure of what you want it to do and give it the appropriate surface tweeks to match.
I'm probably going to punch up the other NIB Blazing soon and try something different. The ball looks too darned nice to keep out of the arsenal.
Edited on 12/16/2003 8:55 PM
