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NoNeed4Revs

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How on earth....
« on: September 21, 2003, 07:34:34 AM »
I was bowling my travel league today, working on four in a row when I stepped up in the 10th. I swing out from 25 to 7 and slammed pocket, thinking I just strung five…

And somehow I stoned the 7-8.

Has anyone EVER seen before this on a perfectly flush shot without it being a bad rack? About ten people saw this, and everyone agrees it wasn’t high or light…

WTH?
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HamPster

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Re: How on earth....
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2003, 12:39:45 AM »
Lol, I can imagine it though.  Stone 8 and stone 7, the headpin probably swept across in front of it.  That's what happens EVERY single time anybody leaves a stone 7 that I see.  It just stands there after the headpin bounces off the wall on a mission to catch whatever's left on the right side.  I saw some REALLY funky stuff the other night though.  Got a buddy that's a control cranker, awesome bowler.  40 feet, flat heavy oil, screaming backends.  It's his element, he can turn the ball like crazy and it won't move before it hits the backend, and then WATCH OUT.  Anyway, both of these shots he came in a little high on, but closer to high flush than a shot that might go high enough to leave only a 4.  The first one was a 4-6-9, and the second one was a 3-4-9 that had the 4 kicked out at the last second (and I still have no idea how he got so close to the pocket and left a 3 pin, the ball brushed it, but it set up like a normal shot, lol, kinda looked like the ball went right through part of the 3).  This guy's righthanded, mind you.
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Rick Wunder

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Re: How on earth....
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2003, 10:57:03 AM »
NoNeed,
I saw that for the first time myself just a few weeks ago.  Very strange, indeed!
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s1nger1

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Re: How on earth....
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2003, 11:22:27 AM »
A few weeks back I went light into the pocket and left the 4-6-8 and it off set the eight pin to where the seven pin normally sits in the 10th frame of game three shoot 228. still shot 721