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ejs1997

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Need help w/ dry lane ball
« on: October 26, 2009, 01:58:12 PM »
I currently bowl in a high end 2nd set trio league. The league in front of us is a 5 man league with people using old blue hammers, plastic and new end equipment told the house uses a lighter oil as well. When our league starts the lanes are dry but about into frame 3 to 5 they are toast since our league is using up the rest of the oil with our equipment. The league in front of us also has 95% of the players trying to go down and in thus making it harder for the straighter players in set 2

I'm currently using a Roto Grip Mars with a 4inch pin above the ring finger and thats over hooking at times depending on the players in front of us.  I throw the ball around 15 mph more forward roll playing down and in.  Playing as straight as I do I can only go so far left/deep for me deep before I lose accuracy leaving me in trouble.

I'm looking at these but have questions on all of them:
Lane #1 XXXL but worried that my straighter game wont get a plastic to react
Hammer Rayzer but is reactive cover still to strong with the pancake core
Visionary Ogre Urethane but unsure if the core and shell is to much as I haven't used urethane in 15 years and cant remember how it even reacts
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Laybzz74

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Re: Need help w/ dry lane ball
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2009, 10:18:52 PM »
Lane Masters Straight Flush with Extended Length polish does the trick for me ... just got a second one on eBay with a label layout to compliment my existing one (layout in profile).
BTW ... plastic works too.

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Re: Need help w/ dry lane ball
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2009, 10:37:12 AM »
One more to add to the list -- the Power Groove Dry/R.  Reacts much like urethane but has more carry power from the reactive resin coverstock.  And you can find them fairly inexpensively at on-line pro shops or on e-Bay.  --  JohnP
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Re: Need help w/ dry lane ball
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2009, 10:40:00 AM »
Another vote for Visionary Ogre Urethane which I use as spare ball and dry lane ball.
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Re: Need help w/ dry lane ball
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2009, 11:08:29 AM »
If your mars is hooking too much , i really would'nt worry about not being able to get the XXXL to move.  If it really is that toasty, this ball should work just fine.

If not I would def go with the urethane ogre.

Obviously with your low speed reactive will not work in this case.
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Re: Need help w/ dry lane ball
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2009, 11:26:11 AM »
Another vote for the OU, and the PG Dry/R is also a good option if you do not trust urethane.

If you are a bit speed dominant, you might also take a look at Storm's Natural. With some polish, it might also be worth a try - but I'd consider it a step up from the OU, and it might be rollier than a PG Dry/R.

For a pancake urethane piece, there's also Brunswick's Urethane Groove available - an overlooked piece, like the Dry/R. Smooth, but still has more traction than a polyester piece. Comes polished now, AFAIK, for really scorched lanes, but with some surface you can actually make it work even on medium lanes or patterns with some dry area.
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Re: Need help w/ dry lane ball
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2009, 12:55:33 PM »
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Another vote for Visionary Ogre Urethane which I use as spare ball and dry lane ball.
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Re: Need help w/ dry lane ball
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2009, 11:44:44 AM »
The Lane #1 Gemstone may be the best dry to medium-condition ball ever! Due to health reasons, my ball speed is down about 3 mph. I am now extremely rev dominant. Every ball and everywhere I bowl now hooks way too much. I have been searching for, and trying, just about every company''s balls for drier lanes. I have tried just about every layout. I have tried every surface prep.Nothing has worked remotely well. Everything has either flat out hooked way too much, or has been uncontrollable on the backend. Carry has been non existent, when I do occasionally get to the pocket. I really miss my high performance balls, that I can no longer get down the lane. It may be too soon to tell, but initial tests look very good! I drilled the Gemstone 5x 3 3/8, with a 2" pin buffer. Pin high.
The ball glides cleanly through the heads,reads the midlane smoothly, and then arcs hard, but controllably into the pocket! Carry is above average. Urethane(Natural) and plastic(XXXL) were becoming my ONLY option. It looks like the Gemstone may have given me a controllable reactive look back!
One house in particular, I have been standing on 34 setting the ball on 27 to have any chance of getting to the pocket. Getting the corners out from there at my speed has been 50-50%. I will report back on how it does there. But for now, the Gemstone has given me a look back that I wasn''t sure I would ever have again!

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