As of last week I am out of bowling for awhile as I have a calf tear so I am not sure how long before it will heal. It will be a miniimum of 6 weeks but It may be twice that long so I am really at a loss at what to do with myself.

Currently I have the following hammers all 15lbs:

The Real Deal-polished
Pure hammer just got this have one polished and one NIB
The Deal- waiting on this one NIB
Blade Reactive-NIB
Fabal Hammer 3 D Super Flip-my prize!
Faball Hammer 3 D Offset Max
Faball Hammer Nail- urenthane dry lanes
Faball Hammer Nail Reactive-used not drilled for me yet

The Real Deal is one of the best hammers I have bowled with. But I have an affection for the old hammers. Before my injury I was using the Real Deal, the Super Flip and the Hammer Nail urethane, for dry lanes.

The Pure Hammer I haven't gotten to use these enough to have a good judgement on them but when I did use it seems to leave me lots of spares to shoot at. For dry lanes the Hammer Nail was a better choice for me which surprised me how much it turned in the dry. Actually just not sure what these PH's would be best for and now I have two! I bought two because it was hard to find the first one in 15lbs and then the next week saw one on Ebay and had to have it as well. I could always sell them but not for now. I love the look of the Black Pure Hammer, very attractive cover polished. The new Burgandy one is just so, well, Burgandy! yeck. Might be a good ball though, it is a hammer!

Of the newer balls I wouldn't mind trying the Big Rig looks like a winner for medium and normal league play and Vibe looks good for a drier lane ball. I wish they would be a little more creative with there colors in the covers so many are just blah multi colors. To many of the newer balls seem to have these strong covers and just don't need those, especially particle balls. The Big Block looks like a good ball I have seen it used by several people but the cover is rather blah resembles a Storm Ace to me. What would be nice is a Real Deal in a pearl, same color. As mine is polished to be useful here. Thats why I ordered the Deal to have the same core but that would go longer for normal league play but now that I see it I think the Big Rig might have worked just as well.

Well just thought i would express a few words about my love for Hammers. Why don't some of you hammer fans list and talk about your hammer arsenals to get this forum moving a bit? take care all . HLT
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Big rig diesel is a great ball. Rolls very similar to an ultimate inferno. Shot 299 first league session with it. Pin is under fingers on grip center, cg kicked out 1",no hole need and polished with ebonite factory finish. Ball clears the fronts very well, reads midlane very well, strong arc on back. Very good ball that I have in my arsenal.