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Equipment Boards => Brunswick => Topic started by: pchee2 on March 04, 2004, 09:33:20 PM

Title: Pearl Urethane Cranberry Groove, WTF?????
Post by: pchee2 on March 04, 2004, 09:33:20 PM

Had a chance to throw one last night.  I thought you people said that it goes straight.  Ball does get good length, but then when it hits the dry it makes one of the nastiest moves I've ever seen.  The only ball that turned harder than this for me was the Synergy ETS.  This groove hits pretty hard too, very loud crack like a car crash.  If someone wants a ball that goes long and snaps hard this is the ball.  But terrible in carrydown.   What's your thoughts on the pearl urethane cranberry groove?  It surprised me by turning so hard and sharp.  Looked just like a 7 on the lanes.  


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pchee2<~~~stroking the ball with MANLY revs and spraying the lanes for an average of a buck 62.  This guy is full of STUFF!

Edited on 3/5/2004 1:31 PM

Title: Re: Pearl Urethane Cranberry Groove, WTF?????
Post by: RSalas on March 05, 2004, 12:40:14 PM

Does anything you throw ever go straight?  

Title: Re: Pearl Urethane Cranberry Groove, WTF?????
Post by: pchee2 on March 05, 2004, 01:03:28 PM

R,

You know me, nothing ever goes straight but I didn't think this ball would out snap everything else I have.  Are you going to bowl the memorial day tourney?  I talked to Jim and he said you may be bowling in it.  Would be cool to get a team together if you don't already have one.  I'm going to bring this groove to the leaf and pick up on some young hot chicks on Monday night.  Chicks be checkin' out my groove thang!  Big B should have named this ball the Cranberry Moove.


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pchee2<~~~stroking the ball with MANLY revs and spraying the lanes for an average of a buck 62.  This guy is full of STUFF!

Edited on 3/6/2004 4:15 AM

Title: Re: Pearl Urethane Cranberry Groove, WTF?????
Post by: DP3 on March 05, 2004, 02:39:49 PM

This type of reaction is usually typical with pancake weightblocks with a semi aggressive cover.  Since there's no core really, the ball won't stop hooking because the core has reached it's Perferred Spin Axis.  Therefore once it hooks there's no core to stop the motion of the ball hooking.  Pchee, I assume has a ton of hand, I'm around 480-500rpms myself and I always wondered how I could outhook an Inferno with a Tornado Warning.  
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Title: Re: Pearl Urethane Cranberry Groove, WTF?????
Post by: RSalas on March 26, 2004, 06:57:52 PM

I finally got a chance to throw my Cranberry Groove for the first time last night, and I have to second pchee2's observation.  Oh, it goes straight all right...for about 40 feet, and then instant left turn.  Easily the sharpest three-piece urethane ball I've ever thrown, and it puts the urethane Attack Zones to shame.  Great fill-in piece to bridge the gap between the Power Grooves and plastic.

Title: Re: Pearl Urethane Cranberry Groove, WTF?????
Post by: charlest on March 28, 2004, 07:59:42 PM

It has been discontinued.

Specs:
http://www.bowlingballreviews.com/ball.asp?ballid=793

For sale at
http://www.bowlingball.com/cgi-bin/store/store.pl?Function=ShowProduct&ProductNumber=BRGRCR&Type=balls
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