I have to wonder why more companies don't take one of their nicer cores and wrap it in plastic.
How much harder could it be, say, for Storm to take the FE2 core out of the Thunder series -- which they've been making now for almost 20 years -- and put it in the Ice Storm rather than just a pancake block?
I bought a NIB XXXL Starburst off Triggerman last month and drilled it, and had just been using it for spares until this week, when the combination of warm weather, everyone else on my pair using aggressive reactive stuff, the lane guy not compensating for the weather change and the pair we were on having a history of being harder-hooking than most made me have to go to the XXXL in our third game.
What a difference in carry this thing has over most plastic. I guess it might have to do with the more center-heavy core or the RG numbers, but I think if I'd gotten lined up with this ball in the first game I could have scored from the outset.
Other companies are kind of missing the boat by not doing the same with their equipment if you ask me. For people who see dry lanes a lot, I think they give up 10 pins a game if they don't have something like this in their bag. If I were to combine this ball with my Visionary Slate Blue Gargoyle, I could create a pretty mean dry-lane arsenal. With lane oil becoming more scarce everywhere I've bowled, I might have to consider doing just that.
Jess
