I suspect that due to the nature of the oil pattern, the Shred-It was never a good choice with its current drilling and current surface.
From your description, I'd suggest that either the pattern was shorter than you thought OR they applied more oil in the heads and the midlane, which made the backends over-react, more like a PBA pattern, which provided for a lot of backend from most balls.
As far as the Shred-it goes, you probably needed either an earlier rolling drilling and/or a more surface. More surface by itself might have made the ball hook too much.
The Loaded Revolver might have allowed the shot to come to you by the 2nd or 3rd game, if it weren't good from the start.
Some of these patterns can easily fool the eye, when in practice & warm-ups, the ball in our hand seems so perfect. Often we're not fully warmed up and are not throwing the ball with our proper release and ball speed. Once the games starts in earnest, that ball is not so perfect any more. We've all been fooled in that way, one time or another.
