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perfecone

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buzzsaw help please
« on: March 02, 2004, 03:21:41 AM »
I am thinking about getting my first buzzsaw, but I dont know which one to invest in.  I am a stroker, medium speed, like to play straight up or with a small belly, 10 out to 5 or such, I can throw harder if I need to but too hard and I get wild.  I have avgd 200 for the last dozen years or so,which saw do you think would be best for me.  I dont do anything crazy with ball drilling, no neg weights or or weight holes, nothing fancy. any good advice will be appreciated. thanks in advance.
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DonSVO

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Re: buzzsaw help please
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2004, 07:39:33 PM »
what lane conditions do you deal with on a day-to-day basis? i personally use a black cherry bomb for heavier oil, and have heard great things about the Uranium in the medium category.
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Doug Sterner

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Re: buzzsaw help please
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2004, 08:26:37 PM »
Allow me to provide you 3 choices here....

1. if you have squeaky clean backends and don't fight carrydown, get an Emerald
2. if you have heavier or longer oil, grab a Golden Nugget
3. if you have a mixture of #1 and #2, grab a Uranium

For most league bowlers I really think that an Emerald, Uranium and a Golden Nugget would be a nice 1-2-3.
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Brickguy221

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Re: buzzsaw help please
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2004, 10:29:53 PM »
I agree with what Doug Sterner recommends as I have those 3 balls and those are the conditions I use them on and they work on those conditions with fail.

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Re: buzzsaw help please
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2004, 10:35:25 PM »
when doug sterner speaks about lane #1 products, people listen . . .
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perfecone

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Re: buzzsaw help please
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2004, 09:32:25 AM »
the uranium sounds good, but am I going to have a problem with it hooking to much?  or would the cherry bomb hook more and give me more grief with control?  the house I bowl at is never heavy oil, I can usually find a shot around 10-13.  sometimes I need to swing sometimes not.
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Brickguy221

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Re: buzzsaw help please
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2004, 10:12:14 AM »
The Cherry Bomb will not handle carrydown well. The choice is yours, but if it was me, I would forget about the Cherry Bomb and pick from the list that Doug Sterner gave you on what those balls will do. As BadShot said, "when Doug Sterner speaks, people listem."

As I already said, I own all 3 balls and they work on the conditions Doug Sterner told you they did. I'm not qualified to recommend one of them to you, but I will say this, and that is unless you bowl on the oil conditions Doug described, I would go with the Uranium. If you will read the various reviews on it in this column, most people say, and I agree, that this is an extremely hard hitting ball plus it seldom leaves a 10 pin. In my last 4 league sessions (12 games) I have left a total of 6 - 10 pins and I am not even a good bowler.

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Brickguy221

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Re: buzzsaw help please
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2004, 09:05:10 PM »
Well, Buddy has said exactly the same thing both I and Doug Sterner have said as well as others on this site stating likewise.

Big Bowling, I am sorry and don't mean to disagree with you, but the ball most certainly does have something with 10 Pins...... I can understand that the Cherry Bomb being your favorite ball that it is the one you recommend. I have had balls in the past like that too, but others disagreed with me. Apparently you match up to the Cherry Bomb extremely well and the lane conditions you bowl on favor that ball for you......And that's great for you but not necessarly for others. You will find that most of the people that have owned both balls favor the Uranium over the Cherry Bomb.
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Brickguy221

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« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2004, 12:30:28 AM »
But you won't leave that 10 pin with the Uranium. Trust me. Ask the other owners of the Uranium. This is the point I was trying to make.

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