I did an exotic drill... that my drilelr suggested and its horrible.. gonna plug it and redrill it....

Drill was pin above middle finger.. cg kicked right 4:30.. 4 inch pin... an extreme length drill and its the most over under piece of junk I ever rolled.

Gonna try a better pattern soon...

Totaly pissed off right now, after my Big R bang was a total piece of junk
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Balls for this winter season:

Terminator - Stacked - Heavy to medium oil
Big Bang - Stacked - Medium oil
Buzz - 1:30 Label - Medium to light oil
XXXL - Stacked -  Spare ball

Black Pearl - Coming soon!

This is mine ... and it's SWEET and STRONG !!!

3 oz TW (NIB) and 3 1/2" pin,
3 3/4 x 3 3/4 layout, pin above & right of the ring,
cg 3/8" above the midline, OOB, no WH
(My stats are in my profile too)

BTW, I got that layout per the recommendation of Galen Gentry himself at Legends; to be honest, not all the layouts that he has given me have be great (a learning process for both of us) BUT ... I HIGHLY recommend consulting him for his advise so as to try and "match up" a layout for needs.


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**** Official "L/LM ball junkie" ****
Man, I LOVE this game; and I love it even more now that I'm using LEGENDS/LaneMasters equipment !!!
 "Master the Lanes with Legendary hitting power" !!!

Robb in O'Fallon, IL 62269 (near Scott AFB)
LAYBZZ74@AOL.COM (Email and PayPal addy)

Thanx for the subject "bump" but that reply to DPat would best be sent to him in a PM.
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**** Official "L/LM ball junkie" ****
Man, I LOVE this game; and I love it even more now that I'm using LEGENDS/LaneMasters equipment !!!
 "Master the Lanes with Legendary hitting power" !!!

Robb in O'Fallon, IL 62269 (near Scott AFB)
LAYBZZ74@AOL.COM (Email and PayPal addy)

Not sure why your driller chose that layout but that's a very finicky layout for high rev players.  It's not really exotic but it sounds like it places the pin about 6" from your axis.  When you place the pin this far on this strong a ball, it tends to make it over/under (especially on fresh) because the core position isn't enough to play the oil but the cover is way too strong to play the dry (ball can go sideways for high rev players).     This layout works better on broken down patterns (mainly heads and mids) when you need the push through the front (hence the long pin to PAP) but you need the surface for carrydown.  This layout minimizes flare through the first part of the lane.

I would suggest a surface tweak and/or a weight hole tweak.  Try 2000grit or 4000grit abralon.  On balls where this layout was over/under, I would go with a "rev leverage" hole.  This is 6 3/4" from center of grip at 45* in thumb-positive quadrant.  Make sure you can go at least 3".  That might require burrying the middle finger hole first to create enough side and thumb.  This creates more flare and much stronger midlane which definately makes the ball more playable.

I find this drilling works well with higher MB balls, I also have a Action drilled even farther left of this with my pin over the left edge of the middle finger which is around 6 1/4 pin to pap with the cg in my grip center. Ball revs forever and makes a nice backend move very late, great for a 2 nd game of 1 st shift league were still is oil upfront but mids are going away slightly. The Action does not have a high mb but still has as stated before the surface i left it in box finish, i do not think Black Pearl has enough oob to make this move. For me i would guess an over/under nightmare but i have used the same exact layout with great success by placing the higher mb balls on the Val with the pin straight over the bridge. They start up early and keep on revving all the way through the deck, so with morich ball or some of the roto grip balls this layout has been per say the nuts.

Maybe just plug the middle finger reuse the ring finger as the new middle finger and that will be enough of a move to handle it. Btw since you come too Vegas alot why not try K&K bowling services for layouts and drillings, tell them Barry sent you go too either store but Green Valley is were i go.