I think it's a step, backwards towards Ebonite and the Cyclone. It's still stronger yet, The Strike King was stronger than the Slingshot; now the Rhino is stronger than the Strike King. Brunswick is removing itself from one of its previous strengths: light oil balls.
Ebonite has had no true light oil balls since the Cyclone came out. Now, Brunswick joins them.
Heck, now there's room again for the Slingshot below the Rhino.
I didn't meant the same ball; I mean the same type of ball. And that Brunswick SEEMS to be following the same general path, using stronger and stronger balls as their weakest. They're not the same large step, when it went to the Cyclone, that Ebonite took, but, as I said, the Strike King was stronger than the Slingshot. I have no doubt that with little lower RG and little higher differential, that the Rhino, as good as they look, will be a little stronger overall than the Strike King.
I honestly think there's ow room to put the Slingshot below the Rhino and have a more properly filled arsenal. Yes, I know people with high ball speeds don't need it, but many of us still do.
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with Bowlmor taking over both AMF and Brunswick bowling centers, we need more light balls than ever before. Bowlmor uses the cheapest, crappiest oils than can find and puts down far, far less oil than AMF or Brunswick did 20 years ago.
My comments are based off of the original thread about people posting how this ball is too strong and the way it is going of making stronger and stronger entry level balls based off of nothing more then what they think they know on core numbers and some coverstock no one has ever heard of........If you didn't say these quotes along with others in the previous thread then anything on this page you reply to doesn't apply to you anyways..
I've throw the slingshot and the Strike King on almost identical layouts and the results were minimal for the difference the diffs are listed as....