So I decided that after the poor reaction I have been getting with my Buzzbomb, that I needed to try a different surface. I decided to change the surface from 1000 (box) to 4000, which would put it at the same surface as my Bite.
After talking with my pro shop guy who is VERY good and has drilled over 20 Lane #1 balls for me, he is of the opinion that there may be a problem with the ball itself, and was planning to call Lane #1 to get some of their opinions. I haven't as of yet heard the results.
Here are the facts:
- The Buzzbomb repeatedly took out the 3 pin where the Bite was blowing through the nose or going Brooklyn on the same line. Even my Emerald Pearl was moving more than the Buzzbomb @ 4000!
- The Buzzbomb is flaring a ton, probably too much. I don't think I have ever seen this much flare, in fact there is probably 3/8" of separation in the oil rings and about 7-8" of total flare. I normally get closer to 4-5" on a given ball, give or take an inch.
- My pro shop guy said he had a bear of a time getting the ending weights where he wanted them, especially the side weight. He didn't quite fully explain what problem he was having because he was swamped with customers.
Now here is to weird part, and maybe someone can chime in who knows reactions and ball motion to tell me what this means. My proshop guy placed a sticker on the ball where he said my PAP was on this particular ball, and it looked closer to my grip than where my PAP would normally be.
He told me to watch the motion of the sticker when I threw the ball, and that if the sticker stayed tight in the center of the axis, then the ball was performing how it was supposed to. However, he said that if the sticker deviated from the axis too much, that he would suspect something was wrong with the ball, possibly mismarked or something with the core wobbling too much (his words).
What I saw was the sticker going from tight in the center to deviating probably 4" from center, then back to tight, then back to 4" from center before it hit the pins. What the hell does this mean? Seems like the ball is flaring really weird, but I have never tried to concentrate on a sticker on my axis while the ball was rolling before either, so what should I be seeing? According to the proshop guy, it should have stayed tight until it got into a roll and headed to toward the pocket.
So someone help me. I tried a different surface thinking that maybe I could get the ball to behave differently, but it was even worse than it was at 1000. I am starting to think I am in the same boat as Nicanor, and possibly received a bad ball or one that was mismarked somehow.
Again, I was throwing my Bite and my original Widow at 4000 (same surface as Buzzbomb) and getting spectacular reactions. The lanes had been freshly oiled about 2 hours before I started bowling.
I really DON'T want to plug and redrill because that has an effect on how much I could sell it for if I ever decided to do so, and I really want to achieve the reaction that so many others here have raved about- like someone said before, they have over $180 reasons to want to make this ball work- more for me since I support my proshop as much as I can. Hopefully between me, my proshop guy and Lane #1, we can get this thing figured out. Any input anyone can give would be appreciated though.
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~SprayNpray
-formerly known as SawFreak
-official house hack
