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Title: Rampage vs Swarm
Post by: agroves on April 02, 2009, 10:36:09 PM

Same cover, different core...

What to expect in reaction difference?

Title: Re: Rampage vs Swarm
Post by: dizzyfugu on April 03, 2009, 06:40:56 AM

The same?

Even if the core looks different, the RG numbers are almost identical, so IMHO any difference you might tell are either drilling differences or due to ball age and oil saturation.
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Title: Re: Rampage vs Swarm
Post by: LuckyLefty on April 03, 2009, 07:26:58 AM

From the users I hear a slight but distinguishable difference.

It usually sounds like a little more dramatic backend from the swarm with most similar drillings...a little more predictable performance from the rampage....

Ever so slight.  It seems when high scoring and big backends are needed the swarm is pulled out.....and when a slight more predictably is needed the rampage.

I am still hearing of many users still loving their rampage and continuing to use.

REgards,

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Title: Re: Rampage vs Swarm
Post by: LotsaBalls on April 03, 2009, 10:45:34 AM

I could be wrong but it seems that in previous tread it was said that the rampage was a hybrid and the swarm was a pearl

Title: Re: Rampage vs Swarm
Post by: on April 03, 2009, 10:55:00 AM

Murf866 is correct. The red is solid while the gold is pearl on the Rampage. It was not marketed that way back at it's release simply because the term hybrid had not been widely used in the industry at that point.

If both were kept pretty shiny their reaction may be close on the lane for any given bowler, however, if you were to keep the Rampage around 2000 abralon, for example, that would certainly smooth out it's reaction so that it would start reading the lane slightly earlier than the Swarm.


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