I love when people misread or mispronounce bowling ball names . . honestly . . and not on purpose . . it's classic. Anyway.
Odd night, drug out the Special Agent that I hadn't thrown in a couple months, and started league with it. It was payout night, and you could bowl for some point money if you wanted . . and I was there and had nothing better to do, so I bowled. Didn't count for anything, so I wasn't taking it too seriously. Had the money, and needed a ball for an oily house that I've been struggling at the last couple weeks, Reno, and our PBA Experience league coming up this summer. Solution? Fury. Had it drilled while I was bowling my first couple games.
My driller was afraid if we went too strong with the layout that it would give me problems, but after everybody here has said it's tamer than they expected, and I told him that I'd love to have something I can throw a little cleaner and faster without having to really rip on it, he said what the hell, let's just do it. He didn't tell me the exact numbers, but it looks like 4x3 or 4x2 1/2. Flare reducing weighthole was drilled 2 1/2 inches up from my pap, I believe, as there was quite a bit of side and finger weight that needed removing. Left the surface at box.
Synthetic house, medium oil volume, short pattern, oiled 23, buffed to 37, hard wall. After a 255 and a 233 with my SA, which was absolutely ripping back on the backend, I decided to go ahead and throw the Fury the last game. Threw it on my fill ball in the 10th of the second game after I left a 10. Playing my SA between 3rd and 4th arrow out to about 6 and back in, throwing an angle, not an arc, really projecting it, playing a breakpoint further down the lane. I started out there with my Fury, and took a little off, just in case. Clean through the heads, revved up, and smoothly turned over.
First two frames of the 2nd game, it didn't quite make it back either time. I was keeping it in the oil all the way down the lane, and it wasn't making the turn. However, I still had taken some off, and was being firm with it. I softened up, and here it came. Started playing an arc from the same spot on the lane, getting it out a little sooner, but keeping it a little tighter, and it really started moving. Couple spares, 7 in a row, finished with a 255.
Took it down to the low end to bowl a couple games with a friend. The low end typically has more oil up front and stronger backends. The Fury was RIPPING on this shot. I was basically flinging it out to 6 or 7, and it was revving and really moving strongly on the backend. I was kicking out half 10's, and the pins didn't stand a chance when I hit light. When it starts moving, it really drives at the pins, I wouldn't so much say it hits like a ton of bricks, more like it's a very strong continuous ball at the pocket. It keeps the pins low, but they're going everywhere, and going down. Matter of fact, the only time I didn't strike with this ball was when I screwed up and either hit up on it too much or got too fast. If it hit the pocket ANYWHERE, they all went down. No flat 10's, no mixer 7's, no 8's, no 9's, just a lot of strikes. Hits like a heavier ball, but like I said, it's a strong ball, it doesn't necessarily give me the impression of hitting super hard . . if you get what I'm saying. Very hard arc, and it was snapping on the low end.
I'm excited to see what this ball will do on oil, it performed very well on a drier shot that you could get a Power Groove back from 5th arrow on . . I thought I was experiencing burnup on the two shots that didn't make it back, but I wasn't. It needs a little time to rev up, but all that means is that you can throw a more comfortable shot, it might be the most controlled hook I've ever had in a ball. Reminds me a lot of maybe a strongly drilled 400 grit Red Zone . . or an Inferno with a stronger, more defined breakpoint. I'll try to throw it tomorrow at my resurfaced wood house, where it will probably be way too much just due to the surface, then at my Laneshield house on Monday where it's been super oily the last couple weeks. It seems very versatile. It acts like it will give you control and smooth out the backend on skid/snap conditions, and still deliver a very strong backend, and also acts like it will chew through oil as well as any ball really can.
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