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First Impressions of the Blue Solid Carbide
« on: December 04, 2003, 12:09:52 AM »
Well, there's not much to say about this ball, it was decent but overlapped a much better hitting and carrying Enforcer.

My Blue Solid Carbide was drilled pin next to the ring finger with the CG placed at the 3:00 position.  The whole point of owning this ball was to combat over under on a sever wet/dry adult bumper shot.  It did that nicely but didn't have enough juice left to make it back to the pocket.

I only used this ball on synthetic since that's where I was fighting the wet/dry condition.  The pattern laid out here is a 40 ft flat 10-10 no buff period.  Standing with my slide foot on 25 playing 10 as the breakpoint the Blue Solid hardly made it back, and when ever it touched the pocket I always left either a seven or a ten.  After six frames I put this ball away for a much stronger Carbide Bomb.  That ball gave me the same read but actually had no trouble getting back into the pocket, and carrying as well.

On a whim, I shot in a Turkey Shoot using the Blue Solid Carbide on those same synthetics I'm struggling on.  The lane man double oiled the heads to last 18 games without reconditioning.  The lanes were coated long and everybody was playing up the twig the first round.  I shot straight up five with a serious reduction in speed, but the ball nice and smoothly arched into the pocket.  Carry was better than average and once I finally got lined up the Blue Carbide proved decent after all.

My overall feelings on this ball are, it's not bad, a pretty smooth ball that offers good control and a nice roll.  This ball didn't over react in the transistion from oil to dry which is what I wanted out of it.  Not a typical heavy hitter and carrying ball I'm used to but effective in it's own rights.  I decided to sell it because it overlaps the Enforcer which hits and carries alot better.

I know I could have adjusted otherwise, but there's really no need for me to keep two balls that react the same when one does it's job better.

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