if your avalanche  is too much dont do it my blue is a good 5 boards more than my avalanche i have the two in a bag by themselves for when i sub in a wooden lane house.

I have had both drilled exactly the same, and I can tell you that I found the new Blue Hammer to be noticeably weaker than the AU. I personally feel it may be worth trying. It all depends on how much weaker you need it to be. Significantly weaker than both are the classic Faball Hammers, perhaps you can score one of the oldies.

I have a ball spinner and keep my Avalanche polished.  I also have a plastic spare ball, but it doesn't carry at all when used as my strike ball.

I use Sonics by Roto Grip for dryish lanes. Sonic-X's, Ultra-Sonics, and Supersonics. However since you are now talking about using plastic, I have to assume you are talking about bowling on toast!

In those cases, most of the balls that I have that carry the best on that condition, are MoRich pieces. I have an Nsane Revs, drilled pin under ring with MB kicked right that carries well. I have a Shock and Awe, pin and MB stacked under the bridge that carries well; and I have an Onslaught drilled simple leverage, but pin down.....and this ball really carries well.

My original Blue Hammer can't be used on toast. The ball still has a lot of giddy-up and hooks entirely too much, even though it's urethane!

I guess my question would be, what are guys who are bowling well throwing where your AU is too much ball.  I would think that any urethane at 4000 with a touch of polish would handle the driest conditions that you ever see anymore with high viscosity oils, and the volumes being used generally.  I bowled on a shot that hadn't been oiled in a couple of days, and the surface was old.  Still could play my natural urethane at 3rd arrow

I stepped down from a Slingshot to the Avalanche.  Have had a lot more success with the AU.  Just want something a little more tame than the AU.

I bowled in a house a few years ago that had no oil after 15 feet on the weekends.

A simple headshot on Saturday morning.  I would throw to 15 feet at 10 and boom the ball would pop up in the air a couple of inches at 15 feet and land at 13 then slowly be in the gutter at 40 feet....

We would play 4 th and 5th arrow on the weekend every weekend on the left any reactive.  Urethane was not better.  Plastic never worked.  A guy came in one day and laid a 660 in practice playing on this same shot on the left!

Playing straight up 9!  I asked him wha?  He said Rubber! 

Rubber for the weekends made it playable(they never worked in league!)

REgards,

Luckylefty