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TwoFourEightNineNine

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Punisher Mini-Review
« on: November 12, 2004, 03:04:44 PM »
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There's a pic of the ball. The ball is drilled about 4x4.5 for me. The pin is 3.5-4", 3.7 oz top weight (fingers drilled pretty deep here). Box condition.

I'm throwing the ball with approx 19mph in the front, with 300rpm, a little less than 40 degrees of axis tilt. I have yet to alter the surface.

I threw this on a wood surface, fresh house shot that ran for about 35-36", on the short side. Backends were pretty big, and the surface condition is fair and showing some signs of significant damage.

Speaking of clearing the heads, this clears the heads a lot easier compared to 80% of what's out in the market today. This ball allows me to play in the area that I am most comfortable with... Way outside, or in the track. I would have to alter my hand position by really being up the back or taking out some of the "load" in the wrist (I usually do a load,unload type of release).

This ball is very clean for me, and can snap really hard in the backend if you can turn the hell out of it... something that I can do, but not fond of doing.

This sits between my sheen BVP Nemesis and a Blazing Inferno that I've drilled with a very high-rg/weak drilling. Will make a full review later.
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RandyO

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Re: Punisher Mini-Review
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2004, 12:19:33 AM »
Hmmm, short house shot, old wood, significant damage - sounds like Mowry Lanes?? So many patches on those lanes it looks like you're facing sand traps all over the fairway

TwoFourEightNineNine

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Re: Punisher Mini-Review
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2004, 09:27:27 AM »
Randy, I should edit.


it should go...


"Older wood surface that is starting to show some kind of damage". If I was bowling at AMF Mowry, I would say... "AWFUL".

It's Palo Alto Bowl. They've been getting a lot of lineage there in the past year from open play and the surface has been taking a huge beating.
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Edited on 11/13/2004 10:34 AM
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smash9

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Re: Punisher Mini-Review
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2004, 04:25:21 PM »
I thought this Punisher was much better than the one done a few years ago with Dolph Lungren (spelling??)--- Lots of violence etc. for the guys.  On a side note, I was suprised he didn't hook up with that gal at the end of the movie -- she was kind of hot.


OH.......you meant the bowling ball...........
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TwoFourEightNineNine

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Re: Punisher Mini-Review
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2004, 05:18:10 PM »
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It's Palo Alto Bowl. They've been getting a lot of lineage there in the past year from open play and the surface has been taking a huge beating.



The lanes were doing the beating to most everyone bowling there last month.
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J_Mac

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Re: Punisher Mini-Review
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2004, 12:12:30 AM »
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I threw this on a wood surface, fresh house shot that ran for about 35-36", on the short side. Backends were pretty big, and the surface condition is fair and showing some signs of significant damage.


That's less than 3 feet of oil...  no kidding that's short!  LOL

PS-Yes I know he meant feet, but it's still funny.
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RSalas

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Re: Punisher Mini-Review
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2004, 12:59:17 AM »
I just got my Punisher today.  Actually, I took possession at about 4:00 PM, which gave me just enough time to put three holes in it and add some inserts before subbing in an early league about 30 miles away.  While three games isn't a real good read on the ball, I found the Punisher to fit almost exactly between the Zone Classic and Monster SlayR, in terms of overall strength, length (ZC shortest, SlayR longest), and smoothness at the break (ZC sharpest, SlayR smoothest).

My guess is that the Punisher will be a great ball for those times when I have to play a certain part of the lane to score well, but the ZC is giving me too strong of a reaction to play that line.  I'm also guessing that the Punisher will work best when going from oil to dry;  IMO it doesn't quite handle early dry the way the SlayR does.

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PS-Yes I know he meant feet, but it's still funny.


For some reason, this reminded me of the Stonehenge model from "Spinal Tap..."  
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