BallReviews
Equipment Boards => Columbia 300 => Topic started by: Mike Austin on September 18, 2005, 01:08:46 AM
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First thoughts, haven't thrown it enough to do a review.
Thursday morning we bowled on PBA pattern A, which is the longer gutter pattern. On Pro Anvil Hang. Pin below my ring finger, cg out, low rev hole at 4" from the center of my span. Pitched the hole away from my grip. Ball rolls great! Ball hits great! Ball doesn't hook very much. As the lanes transitioned this ball got better and better, but my Big Rig Diesel and dullish Big Bully hooked more.
saturday night after a league on house shot. Standing around 33-36 targeting around 19-20 at the arrows. I had the whole lane. Ball rolls great! Ball hits pretty good! Not much snappy, big giant arc. I could move right and use less hand, held pretty well, hit good high flush. I could move left and really hit it and the ball loved this, carried everything. Didn't throw any other balls this time, had to get off the lanes for Cosmic (and my wife was hungry!)
I like the ball, want to try it scuffed, polished, and on more conditions. I may take it with me for my scratch league on Monday, it is on wood.
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Columbia has said that it is the biggest hookin cover out there. I wish I could get that thing to wrincle more than 10 boards. I have a zone classic with the red pin the moves more than that. Drilled same way. Its an over priced low end ball.
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Zack Pelton
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The only one I've seen so far had bad drilling written all over it. My friend went to get it drilled at a place that is reputible for screwing up equipment. They said they couldn't put the max drilling layout from the drill sheet because "his span was too long" ...
They slapped a tame drilling on it. It rolls hard, skates about 3 feet, then flips. The way I saw it, it'd be hard to determine what it was going to do consistantly.
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-Ricky-
Member of the St. Louis, Missouri YABA
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