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DP3

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Powerdrive specs!! Yes!!
« on: July 07, 2005, 04:21:20 PM »
Pearl Vaccine cover, Bully core.  Wow, this should be wayyy strong off the break.

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Re: Powerdrive specs!! Yes!!
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2005, 12:45:47 AM »
Noooo f'way !!!!!!!!!! lookin' good, lookin very good.
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Re: Powerdrive specs!! Yes!!
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2005, 02:46:28 AM »
I drilled one of these today.  My Columbia rep gave me one.  He told me, that this ball has the Bully core, and a pearl Bully shell, that would make it M80 shell, not pearl Vaccine.

Drilled it with the pin above my middle finger and the cg slightly positive, no hole.  This ball is pretty strong!!!  Hooks more than my Bully and Backyard Bully.  Almost as much as my box Big Bully, and a little more than my shiny Big Bully.  My original Bully has been shined also, love this ball.  

Powerdrive was a little weak in the track area, leaving some really flat tens, actually this ball outhooked the Smokin Inferno.  I had to make the Brunswick big parallel move left, to make this ball have more energy down lane, and man did it!  The ball hits very well, as do all the Bully balls for me.  Haven't tried the Professional yet, BTW.

I didn't throw it too much, I am going to bowl a regional this weekend, and it is not cleared for PBA, yet.

Not a bad looking ball, will grow in you in time.  Think this ball will do well, specially if it is at the Drive line price point, which is $30 less in my shop.

Hope this helps ya.....


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Re: Powerdrive specs!! Yes!!
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2005, 06:13:28 PM »
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I drilled one of these today.  My Columbia rep gave me one.  He told me, that this ball has the Bully core, and a pearl Bully shell, that would make it M80 shell, not pearl Vaccine.


WTF?!?  So they changed the colors on the Professional and made it more available or what?  Something doesn't jive.
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Re: Powerdrive specs!! Yes!!
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2005, 06:22:22 PM »
I really can't see C300 making the the same ball as the professional and then selling it for less. I would hope that it is the Vaccine cover with the Bully core. It really doesnt make sense to have a pearl M80 and the bully core and call it the Overdrive, especially when so many of the Professionals have been sold already....

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« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2005, 06:39:51 PM »
It is pearl Vaccine.
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Mike Austin

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Re: Powerdrive specs!! Yes!!
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2005, 10:21:30 PM »
The Bully, Big Bully and Backyard Bully all have M80 Coverstock, but three different versions of it.  S5, S7, S9 is what I was told whatever that means.

The Backyard is not just a pearl version of one of the other two.  The Professional is a pearl Big Bully.

The Powerdrive is a pearl Bully.

There may be some slight differences to the cores that change the numbers and such.  This info was given to me in person by Shawn Morris.  He has been with Columbia a long time and knows their product very well.

BTW, the Powerdrive is a pretty strong ball.  More aggressive type roll to it, even with the Pearl Shell.

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