Paid a premium at the pro shop, but the guys were friendly and pretty knowledgeable. I originally intended to get the regular black widow in a 16#, but they would've had to order it and I've been suffering from Ball Acquisition Disorder (B.A.D.)
Since it's my birthday I decided to go ahead and pickup the BWP in a 15# and have it drilled for the league games I bowled tonight. I got 15# because the guy was telling me that 16# might actually be too much for that ball and I'd likely get a little more pin action off the 15# since it would deflect a little better than a 16#. I really wasn't sure, but it sounded good and again... I was suffering from B.A.D. They got done drilling it just as my first game with my old Ebonite Matrix TPS III was coming to a close. I also had them scuff it up a little bit because I wanted slight more hook. We have light - med. oily lanes and they thought that would be good. Turns out I'd like just a little more hook, so I'll probably have them scuff it some more.
Got to use it in 2nd and 3rd games and it's quite a little bit of a change. I don't have a lot of revs on the ball, so it doesn't hook in like the video I saw someone else here just recently post, but it does turn left nicely and I really did get some good pin action. During one frame my whole team thought I was going to leave a 6-7-10 split, but the 7 somehow managed to fall giving everyone the impression of just an easy spare pickup, but when the 7 fell it hit another pin which swung into the 6, knocked it back and killed the 10 with it. Strike, yay!
I do get to throw it a little bit more outside and watch it come back in versus the Ebonite which was straight down about the 33 board or so and watch it hook into the pocket [hopefully].
Anyways, feel free to ask questions and here are the links to the pix below. Warning to 56k'ers they are full sized 6MP pictures.
http://home.comcast.net/~dustinhatcher/BlackWidow1.jpghttp://home.comcast.net/~dustinhatcher/BlackWidow2.jpg--------------------
Dustin
