I was confused this evening because I felt that there was more oil out on the lanes than usual for my Tuesday night league (the guy lays out a short oil 25 ft. buffed to 35 ft pattern, wetter outside and drier inside) yet my Barbed Wire polished had a smoother roll and reaction than my Vortex II Particle which didn't seem to have much bite by the backends.

I feel like from week to week this home house shot is driving me nuts- as I will warm up on a pair, find a great shot and then when we go to the lanes we are scheduled to bowl on, that shot is not even close to what I had on the warm up pair.

And it's tougher because I'm the only lefty in the league. We were bowling a position round and watched the team we were bowling against struggle game one, line in for game two as the lanes opened up a little and then game three couldn't make the right carrydown adjustments. Meanwhile I went from my particle ball around 15-12 slight swing and mix up strikes with 6 pins, 6-10 and various splits (4-6, 6-8, 7-9) to switching to my Barbed Wire the final game playing straight up 7 or 8 board and throwing a decent 183 (minus the pocket 7-9 and pocket 7-10 I left in frames 5 and 6).

Any suggestions to help conquer this condition would be greatly appreciated. Oh yeah- the guy only strips the backends every two weeks.

Matt