So, I have visited a storage bin and been surprised in some of the results I have gotten this year.
At a classic old time heavy volume Top hat (circa 1999 2000 style shots)tournament site over the past year I have been almost 50 to 60 percent in the finals with various combo partners using a Ebonite Tornado Solid(label leverage), and a Columbia Reaction Roll(particle straight up the 10 board) and killing it! Both of these balls circa 2001 - 2003? This place is so old time heavy oil top hat that the righties often struggle and cant get their coast to coast mentality out of their head till they have been there about 3 times! Can you say 2 8 10!
On our local VERY little midlane oil local house shots on the left I have recently found an old Control Zone (rg like 2.594 and .049 diff)laying around in my storage bin for 10 years and put it to use for when I want push like a pancake and backend like a 2 piece oh Nice This ball has very mediocre reviews! My partners and opponents love the look. Once I am forced deeper with the Control Zone I take out an newer style Tornado Warning(pearl pancake only no puck) and move near 8 and this thing pushes through the local concrete on the left and slurves in and hits hard.
TO start sets on the local concrete I just picked up a Ebonite Gyro Balanced Pancake Urethane ($3.33) or throw my Natural solid to push the oil that is to 15 feet out into the midlane concrete. When that is successful I can sometimes use my Rhino(newer and .030 diff instead of the old Avalanche .024 version) and absolutely throw explosive pocket smashers after going straight down 9!
It is amazing to me how old this arsenal is
It is amazing to me in today's slick oils how our slowest rev bowlers in this house down to 8 mph and 3 revs on the right can get 40 feet of push and 20 feet of hook while on the left are only high average bowlers are almost 18 mph at the pocket to get through the concrete from 15 to 43 feet. Warped lanes maybe?
But using these Urethanes to set up the condition is taking the concrete out of the midlanes but also my pancakes are pushing though quite nicely and the older weaker coverstocks slurve in so much more predictably. Only when I have properly conditioned the shot Through league practice and a half game with Urethane, can I go to my "high powered"(ha ha) recent production Rhino pearl!
Another winner for me on another one of local midlane concrete centers is my Scout reactive Solid circa 3 years ago(pancake only) that when the middle is double oiled for tournaments on the slightly shorter shot 39 feet playing straight down 8 to start and morhphing in to 12 13 at the arrows has allowed me hang with some of the best bowlers I have ever seen in some handicap events. With even some quite decent scratch sets.
I have one more ball I won't discuss out here.
To finish, Viva la Oldtimers on the left!
Regards,
Luckylefty
