Post by: jmattox on March 16, 2008, 02:59:53 AM
Post by: JOE FALCO on March 16, 2008, 11:50:03 AM
I do bowl in Senior leagues and because of that I've seen some DRY conditions (Seniors don't rate OIL)! For the last couple of years I've tried some balls described for DRY or MED/DRY condition .. some were good .. best I've come across is the AMF Night Hawk Pearl. It's a good price and does the job!
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Post by: JOE FALCO on March 16, 2008, 12:32:00 PM
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Post by: Spartan on March 16, 2008, 12:42:19 PM
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Post by: Mike E on March 16, 2008, 03:33:44 PM
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Post by: twister on March 16, 2008, 03:43:19 PM
http://www.visionarybowling.com/IndexAlternative.html
It came at 1000 matte and I took mine to 4000 abralon with polish and it hooks a tad bit more than my white dot does.
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Post by: dizzyfugu on April 01, 2008, 07:52:58 AM
XXXL might be a solution even below - but it will IMHO need really dry lanes to exploit the core inside. And it is (IMHO too) expensive.
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Post by: Grayson on April 01, 2008, 08:10:54 AM
Just don't expect a "reactive" type of reaction...
I have one XXXL drilled "label" and the new bowling center here has a 36ft very narrow oiled THS on brand new AMF lanes with sqeaky clean backends...
short... light oiled... and strong backends
the XXXL is good there... as well as the white dot... and any other plastic... it just hooks a tad more imho (you can play your reactive stuff as well... jsut need to get real deep and play all over the lane... bad for crankers.... which use plastic then)
...expensive is relative....
the plus of the XXXL is that it really is plastic and can be used as spareball as I do with mine... some kind of combo of spareball and "last resort" when it really gets too dry for reactives which I have faced here in Germany imho "too" often
but I guess this is the same for old urethan... I guess
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Post by: alltenback on April 01, 2008, 12:31:56 PM
link of photos Of the XXXL by lane 1 above.
For bone dry lanes XXXL by lane 1 is a fantastic ball but the back ends have to be dry as well for it to work well. If the back ends have oil carry down this ball will never finish.
I bought this ball cheap on ebay as a test pilot and it was already plugged up. The plug job the person did was horrible so we had to work around it a bit with a bigger thumbslug. I had Tony C. at www.bigdaddysproshop.com drill it up close to the specs the person before had it.
Surprisingly it works awesome. It isn't a fast reving ball but for really dry lanes weather it is synthetics or old wood it works great.
Sometimes there is a lot of oil carry down and the ball doesn't make the turn and finish to well. So it will leave a lot of ten pins if the conditions aren't correct.
This ball works great as my spare ball as well.
The new Lane #1 XXXL Starburst model is the exact same ball they have been producing for years. The new model is just now fancy looking. I still might order the new model but it is great to pull this ball out in league play and people are like "WTF is that"
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