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txbowler

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Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« on: March 15, 2011, 06:15:47 AM »
    Just for discussion purposes...
 
You get 4 balls for your leagues and tournaments all year.  You cannot swap out during the year.  You can choose a spare ball, but then you only get 3 other balls.
 
1 other rule:  You can only choose 1 ball from each of the companies.
Can be old or new.  If you have a pink hammer, you can use it.
 
How are you building your arsenal & why?


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chrisleftwich

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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2011, 03:28:06 PM »
If I only had 4 balls to choose from I would choose the following:

 

1.  Heavy Oil -  Ebonite Mission - pin down - sanded to 1000 grit

2.  Med/Heavy -  Columbia Outburst - Pin Down - can be good at OOB or polished, takes surface changes well.

3.  Benchmark type - Brunswick Loaded Revolver - Box finish - can always find out if I need to ball up or down.

4.  Light oil/Spare -   Storm Natural - OOB - can use as both light oil and spares


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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2011, 03:45:42 PM »
Good post, I like the idea . .  
 
Taboo - Oiler
 
Raging Red Fuze - Medium heavy
 
X-Factor - Medium/Benchmark
 
Spare Tire - Light
 
Taboo is an easy pick, probably the best ball I've ever thrown.  The Raging Red was one of my favorites too, had 3 of them.  Sick ball.  My X-Factor that I still have literally has around 1000 games on it.  Just a smidge under the Taboo for the most versatile ball I've thrown.  And you might think that X-Factor to Spare Tire is quite a leap, but if the X is chewing too much from 5th or 6th arrow, then I can hop over to 2nd arrow and have a nice smooth down and in with the Tire.  Clear balls for some reason seem to hook more than just normal plastic, and the Tire particularly seemed like a urethane/plastic hybrid.  Probably way too much overlap with the first three, but the characteristics are different.  The Taboo is an early smooth controlled power, the Raging Red is still kind of early, but monster backend, and the X is somewhere between the two, with lower hook potential.  It's more of a reaction shape deal with me, instead of a hook potential deal.   


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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2011, 04:15:21 PM »
Will say that I'm not big on using only one from each company because it becomes hard to compare one ball to the next in getting your arsenal the way you want it from top to bottom. Still there are ways around that. As a big Brunswick fan this is my choice

 

 

Hammer Jigsaw

 

Brunswick Wicked Siege

 

Revolution Speed Master (Brunswick Activator plus pearl cover)

 

Morich Complete Annihilation Revival (Brunswick PK18 pearl cover)

 

 

 

Hammer Jigsaw will be for the heavy oil patterns to medium heavy.

 

Wicked Siege is such a versatile ball for me that it covers medium heavy down to lighter oil very well)

 

Revolution Speed Master is great on medium or less and always good when the lanes are just playing funny.

 

Morich C.A.R. works perfect on medium or less as well depending on the layout.

 

I always use whatever strike ball I'm throwing for spares.

 

If using all from one manufacture I would go with the following

 

Alpha Max

Wicked Siege

Diamondback Pearl

Python

 

 


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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2011, 12:02:03 PM »
Strong to weak:  
Hammer Taboo
Columbia Outburst
Storm Victory Road
Visionary B/G Centaur  
 
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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2011, 12:18:30 PM »
Nice, based on what I've thrown:

 

Heavy:  Storm Virtual Gravity.  50* 4 7/8" 35*

Medium Heavy: Track Kinetic Energy. 65* 4 1/2" 40*

Medium: Hammer Black Widow Pearl. 75* 5" 60*

Light/Dry/Spare: Roto Grip Grenade. 1 1/2" axis drilling

 

All I have had great success with on multiple patterns.


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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2011, 04:13:09 PM »
Hammer Taboo
Ebonite Mission 2.0
Storm Victory Road
Storm Natural


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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2011, 04:37:32 PM »
Interesting post.

 

Alpha Max pin down

Megaton

Virtual Energy

Mars

 

 


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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2011, 07:43:22 PM »
Virtual Gravity Nano
Marvel
Victory Road
Spare Ball 
For me the Nano is the best heavy ball I have used. The Marvel works on a fresh house shot. So far my Victory Road lets me play up the boards and gives the length in a 3rd game when my Marvel doesn't hold line for me. And well the spare ball for me is for the 10 pin. 
 
Edited by jmattox on 3/17/2011 at 7:48 PM
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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2011, 09:42:21 PM »
1-Storm  Marvel
 
2-Roto-grip Infinite Theory
 
3- Columbia slingshot
 
4-  Urethane Red Hammer


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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2011, 05:56:50 AM »
Ebonite Mission Domination
Storm Virtual Energy
Brunswick Avelanch Pearl
Columbia White Dot
 
This is what I carry most of the time when I dont know what I am going to find.  For leagues I take out the Brunswick and put in the Mission original


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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #11 on: March 18, 2011, 06:02:26 AM »
Ebonite Big Time
Storm El Nino Gold
Columbia Ti Messenger
Track Sensor II Plus


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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2011, 09:34:37 AM »
columbia full swing
storm hyroad
hammer midnight vibe
track 300C
 


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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #13 on: March 18, 2011, 10:07:48 AM »
Storm - VG Nano  (Heavy)
Ebonite -  Gamebreaker (Med/Heavy)

Hammer - Midnight Vibe (Medium)

Roto Grip - Dark Star (Medium/Light)

 

No spare ball, just kill it and go hard and straight.


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Re: Fun Challenge - Building an 4 ball arsenal
« Reply #14 on: March 18, 2011, 11:36:06 AM »
Good post.

In order from heavy to light.

Storm - Virtual Gravity

Rotogrip - Epic Odyssey

Hammer - Onyx Vibe

Columbia - Black Knight
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