I am curious, how many balls do you have drilled up in your collection that you can throw right now? I know a few guys with quite a few.I have 32, is that too many?

More than 40. I CAN throw any of them, but maybe 10 are used in any month.

I have 83 at this counting. Contrary to what others believe, I don't think that is too much. I don't use all 83, but I do have a standard rotation of about 25 or so. The rest of my balls involve specific drillings, and specific surface preps for when I go to certain tournaments. My collection of older balls with their milder covers really helps on drier conditions.

Knowing how certain tournaments tend to prep their lanes before hand, I will have an advantage by knowing which area of my equipment to concentrate on and carry with me. It has worked well so far. I rarely miss cashing in some form.

Im not sayin I use all 32, I bowl in a travel league in which all are THS  so I really have about a 6 ball rotation depending on house. but i bowl a sport league so I am always looking for a ball for the different patterns, also I have duplicates of some balls with different drillings. my post was more about the numbers of balls guys own, as I am still adding balls that peek my interest!

Hey! if the equipment peeks your interest, keep buying what makes YOU happy! I know one person on this site that's probably owned well over 100 or more balls at one time. BillDozer has probably had me beat by a long shot, in terms of quantity. LOL!!

i have about 15 drilled and ready to go. 6-8 in my normal sport arsenal 4 in my house shot arsenal and a couple spot balls for specific patterns or whatever. my problem is with more balls brings more problems because i think about the ball choice too much.....you can only bring so many to the center so i try to limit my ball drillings

I have probably 25 drilled and carry 6 for tournaments, 4 for league usually.

I've learned that if you drill a ball and love it great. If it is just okay, get rid of it. It will hit the shelf and never get used.

I have 8 that cover a full tournament arsenal depending on the condition from heavy to light. If it doesn't wow me, and can replace one of the 8 to be retired then it needs to go elsewhere.

Milo, you don't live in Tulsa, do you?  See link.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sbavido/3699702664


Is this Milo's stockpile?

Quote from: kidlost2000 on July 01, 2015, 12:51:20 PM

I have probably 25 drilled and carry 6 for tournaments, 4 for league usually.

I've learned that if you drill a ball and love it great. If it is just okay, get rid of it. It will hit the shelf and never get used.

I have 8 that cover a full tournament arsenal depending on the condition from heavy to light. If it doesn't wow me, and can replace one of the 8 to be retired then it needs to go elsewhere.

You are entirely too logical about this kid and will never become a proper ball whore with that attitude. 

I've learned to scale back lol. Sold 100 nib balls to bowlinggems last year. Still have 30 nib in my closet….. Need to sell about 10-15 of them lol