The Wild is exactly that, Wild on the back end!  The first Wild I drilled was for a high rev, high speed customer.  Alex was looking for a ball to compliment his Gold Pearl Ti Messenger, something for when the lanes break down.

The ball had the pin out about 4 inches with 3.6 top weight before drilling.  Knowing what Alex was looking for, I put the pin over his fingers, about 1 inch or so with the cg under the pin in a 5 oclock position.  The grip was shifted directly left off the lable, as Alex is a low track player and I wanted the layout to be strong so he could make it turn the corner from deep inside.  Alex doesn't like playing this line, so I think a ball that gets down the lane better might help him.

This ball got down the lane very nice, better than the Gold Pearl Ti Messenger, but had so much back end, that it out hooked the Ti Messenger by 2-3 boards.  The hitting power was very good.  The problem is that the lanes were broken down that day, lots of open play, and had not been run for evening yet.  On Brunswick synthetics, this tends to make most balls react the same, or have to play the same part of the lane.  I think he will like this ball much more when he gets it to his home house which is wood.

For the price this ball performs very well!  It has easy, long length, with a hard back end motion.  For people on a budget this ball is great!  It has a similar weight block to the Scout/R, but doesn't have the mica in the shell the Scout/R has, therefore it has better length.  Goes as long as the Pearl Beast, but has more back end.

For the straighties, this will be a dry lane ball for sure.  For the tweeners, I think this ball would be best suited to dry lanes, as there are better choices for medium lane conditions.  The boomers will probably use this for drier lanes also, as it could be too squirty on mediums and way too long on fresh.  Boomers might need to mellow this ball out for dry lanes, using a weaker layout.


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Mike Austin
Mike Austin's Precision Pro Shop
Houston, TX
strikes4days@aol.com

I got this ball drilled max backend and it doesn't like oil. It is a very light hooking ball but when you put this ball on dry it does it's name Wild. It hits extremely hard on dry but on oil this ball suffers. I am giving this ball a 9 1/2 and thanks Charlie's Pro Shoppe.

I bought this ball to have something else to throw at unpredictable conditions where I have over/under problems.

I expected a mild reaction in dry and no reaction in oil.  Close but WRONG.  First shot ball slid down 50 ft and acted like it was gonna keep going, then made the sharpest turn of any ball Ive ever thrown, went way brooky.  This ball clears the heads (if there is oil) but man when it touches the dry, look out.

I shot several games starting on completely fresh lanes with perfectly clean back ends.  Light to medium oil.  I dont have huge hand and with the backends clean I had to stand on the 35 and throw this out to the 10 and back to get it to stay on the left side.  It held a line like that for about two games then I had to start moving as the oil played down.  By the 5th game I was throwing straight down the 7 board with a nice reaction in the back, still snappy but a little more controlled.

This ball clearly wont hang with oil.  But it is very very snappy once it touches the dry.

Ill post again after I use it in the house I bought it for (unpredictable flood/spotty).

Very good ball used mostly for spares.  Had it drilled to tame the backend a little bit (which was probably a mistake seeing as how the backend is the main selling point of this ball).  Found that it is a very good down and in ball when the lanes are toasted and there's still a little bit of out of bounds outside.  A two inch crack formed right under the ring finger so my driller has the ball now else I'd be able to tell you pin/cg placement (envision if you will that it is drilled to go long and be fairly tame on the backend)

The taming of the backend caused a loss in hitting power on some occasions but only if there was some sort of carrydown in the backends...if they were flying, so were the pins.
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Andrew Loose
Illinois State University Men's Team

very good ball. i havent used it in ages and i already sold it but since im here and bored, time for some review. This ball hold pocket pretty well and is a very SMOOTH ball for me. i couldnt do as much with it as i could..say..a Track Slash....but it still hit the pocket well. anyone who wants a good medium-dry lane ball, come getcha wilds right here!
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Ball: Columbia Flipside Wild 15#  (pin in)
Drilling:  Pin right below fingers.  maybe a 1/4 inch to the right of the midline if that.  Cg stacked right on top.
Surface Prep:  Box
Games on ball:  over 1,000 easy (yes thats 1,000)

This was an absolutely AMAZING ball.  Ball could be used on anything less than Medium-heavy oils.  on sloppy lane conditions the ball would have a very even arc to it.  something I've never seen in a 3-piece, and with this weak of cover.  if you happened to get on fresh conditions, the ball would have an amazing ability to recover from almost anywhere when other balls are having huge problems doing anything.  

The Wild was by far the best carrying ball I have ever thrown.  If you hit the headpin expect a strike.  I tripped out more 2 pins 4 pins, and sent more messengers at 10 pins with this ball than any other ball I have rolled.  and the funny thing is, you don't really hear the ball hit the pocket, its not this big loud crush like you hear from some balls, the ball just hits, and all the pins fall, kinda hard to explain. I've only had that experience with the Gargoyles from Visionary.

Honor scores with this ball (if you even care) 3 800s (1 sanctioned 2 unsanctioned) 2 300s (1 sanctioned 1 not) 1 299 1 298

overall, it was the best 80 bucks I've ever spent.  I just can't explain how much of a hidden Gem this ball was.  WAY TO GO COLUMBIA have to give this ball a PERFECT 10 outta 10.
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