It all depends on your Pap. For me that would almost be 6" pin-pap, and that would give me a tame ball reaction, good on shorter oil patterns.
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Centers, I have a pearl particle with no marked mass bias. The pin is above my middle finger which gives me about 5 3/4" pin to pap with the CG just rt of centerline & 1 1/2" above the thumbhole. On a THS the ball goes fairly long with a strong backend move. I also have one with the pin just below & to the left of middle finger which is 6 1/4 pin to pap, CG in about same area, & I get a great early read with a strong continous roll to the pocket. These are 2 of my favorite layouts now. I am a fairly low tracker, but not a spinner & my pap is 4 3/4 over & 1/4 up.
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my supernova is drilled this way, works out to 5.5 pin to pap for me, I put the mb at 55*, great med condtion ball for me
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My PAP has changed over the years, but it was 4 x 1 and I had a LT-48 Gold with a 6" pin.  The pin was actually left of my middle finger hole by about an inch.  I drilled that ball up for bowling the high-roller when I needed to play "over the cap" on the left side of the lane.  I got tremendous length and tons of backend.  Of course it was too wicked to use on oil, but great when I needed extra angle on a broken down pattern.  

I wouldn't recommend placing the pin any further than 6 1/2" from the PAP.  So, for someone who tracks extremly close to the fingers and thumb who may have a PAP of 6" x 1/4", that pin may be too far from their PAP and COULD cause the ball to flare backwards.

So, where the pin is in relation to your grips/fingerholes tells really only part of the story.  If the holes were drilled into the top of the weight block (pin down) or side of it (pin up).  If you drill the pin down, and into the top of the block, you are essentially making the weight block (core) shorter and lowering the RG, which will cause the ball to rev quicker.  If you drill into the side, you will make the core essentially taller, raising the RG and getting more lope, or skid.
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Edited on 10/9/2007 5:48 PM