Ball NPS Score: Not Available
FEATURES:
- Coverstock: Max-Hook Reactive
- Color: Burnt Red/Silver All colors do vary somewhat from the picture shown.
- Factory Finish: : 4000 Grit Abralon
- Core: Raw Hammer Assault Core
- Hook: 48 (on a scale from 1-60)
- Length: 39 (on a scale from 1-60)
- RG: 16# - 2.48 15# - 2.48 14# - 2.50 13# - 2.53 12# - 2.60 11# - 2.62 10# - 2.72
- Differential: 16# - .047 15# - .050 14# - .053 13# - .055 12# - .039 11# - .032 10# - .031
- Flare Potential: Medium-High
- Performance: Medium Length with Aggressive Backend Movement
- Recommended Lane Condition: Medium-Heavy to Medium Oil
- Description: There''''s nothing safe about the Acid Raw Hammer. Made with our Max-Hook Reactive coverstock and Raw Hammer Assault core, we''''ve designed it to be dangerous from the outside in a scary combination of power and control you won''''t find in any other mid-level ball. The Raw Hammer Acid. Let the pins burn.
The Raw Hammer Acid fills in a huge performance gap in our popular mid-price series. With the Anger, Hammer bowlers had a great reaction for heavier oil lane conditions. Psycho filled our medium to medium-dry condition needs. But there was a great amount of separation between these two balls. With the introduction of the Acid, we have an outstanding product that fits right in between these two balls and gives bowlers an excellent combination of control and backend power. Acid uses our Raw Hammer Assault core, along with our Max-Hook Reactive coverstock to create a combination of power and control that is simply not found in other mid-price balls. Bowlers will find the Acid to be longer through the front of the lane than the Anger, with more backend power and continuation than the Psycho. The total hook of the Acid is 3-4 boards more than this year’s introduction, the Psycho.

I have now put a few games on the Acid in a few houses, so I thought I'd share my opinions.  I drilled it stacked leverage, and have found on my easy house shot on Friday nights, I can only use it for about the first game, and I will usually have a nice look with it that first game, but after that, it will either start hooking too soon, or lose carry power.  I also started a tournament on Viper pattern with it, and it had a better look than most of my other equipment, and finished very nicely on the backend, carry was very good with it on this pattern.  I see this ball has having more oveerall hook than the Psycho, or Venom as it's a little bit sooner, and a little bit more of an arcing backend than those other balls.  Not quite as much hook as the Anger, but definitely a great ball for me to start most PBA shots with, or use to open up the lane with on a house shot.  Nice combination of the Anger and Psycho with this ball, and another real winner from Hammer.

label drilling cg in palm pin out
15mph med rev's
surfaces tried oob,4000 and 2000 polished
lanes used on old and new synthetic, wood

ok now that i've got quite a few games in and tried it dull and polished on a couple different houses i can honestly say this ball is quickly becoming my favorite its very clean threw the heads but was a little to early but added a touch of moonshine with a 4000 surface and this ball is very forgiving it gives me the couple board room for error that the crankers get and the carry is great with the occasional ringing 10 and high 9's. The thing i like is it doesn't make the big move when the lanes break down for me i notice the slight changes better on this ball than any other i've thrown. In my opinion this ball is very overlooked much like the anger but a great ball

Layout - 5 x 3 pin down with a low hole
Surfaces used - box, 1000, 2000, 4000, 2000 polish, 4000 polish, 500/4000

  If I had to describe this ball in one word, it would be "smooth." On most lane conditions in box finish it gets down the lane easily. In all but the heaviest of oil it reads the pattern early, but doesnt over react. the overall reaction is best described as a "power arc." There is a definite midlane move but only a small amount of shift at the dry.. but with the amount of hook youre getting by the time youre downlane thats all you need to get that extra drive through the pocket.
The ball hooks a ton, but its decieving given the reaction shape down lane. Given the long "breakpoint" you have a ton of area to miss and still leave a makeable spare. For a dull ball it has a pretty good amount of hold when you pull it and miss inside.

other finishes affect the reaction dramatically. with the duller finishes the ball just gets more arcy.. overall hook is about the same. with polish added it starts to push a little bit... still is pretty smooth but with a much more pronounced move downlane. polish basically shortens the break point length on this ball.

Overall the Acid is a great ball and is usually the first one out of my bag. Its very easy to control and its smooth reaction leads to an easy read of the lane conditions. Just like any dull ball though it does require regular maintainance and cleaning to keep the surface dull and performing well.

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this one is the smooth ball in my bag. a lot of roll all the way through the pins. i have it dulled up and its pretty nice. the coverstock doesnt last real long. but other than that a great ball

Picked this ball up off of e-bay. Re-drilled pin below bridge, cg below ring finger. Threw this ball for the first time, threw oh THS. Reaction was very skid/flippy. Had to keep moving left to keep the ball from checking up too soon. The ball is currently at 1000 grit abralon. I am very impressed with the ball reaction, I totally did not expect this kind of reaction from this ball. Went plus 80 for 2 games with the ball. I do not have a lot of hand, this ball is going to allow me to perform better on higher volumed shots. Thanks Hammer!
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