The lanes Im bowling on for league are just way too dry this season. Im thinking of getting a Urethane ball. Im thinking about the Hot Cell, but im not sure if i want to spend that much for a Urethane. Any thoughts on what I should do? Pitch Black, Pitch Blue??

I got a Hustle Say, and it still hooks too much for these lanes, thats why I was thinking a Urethane ball could work. I want to stay in the Storm/RotoGrip family, so maybe a Tropical?

Like what was said above, dry lanes doesn't necessarily mean urethane is a great option.

Is your Hustle SAY too much and Bullseye not enough?

The Bullseye is essentially the same as the Mix and we have one house where the right side gets torched enough where i can throw my Mix with no issues

You might wanna look @ the Fanatic BTU Pearl (silver). I just got 1 as a replacement for a cracked Brute that was only 6 mos. old. It goes realllllly long and snaps on the backside. Drilled pin up between the fingers, polished the cover w/ finesse. Hits great on burnt up lanes.

Quote from: Zaner on October 16, 2017, 03:49:23 PM

Yeah, my bullseye is not enought. I dont know anyone who has a Tropical.
I use my bullseye as a spare ball, thinking about trying to scuff it up a little and see how it goes.

The only option is really a Tropical with Storm/Roto. I'd probably look to drill it around a 3" pin-pap to keep it on the smoother side

At least unlike with the Hot Cell the price is fairly low on the Tropical.  Nice thing about weak pearls is usually sold as entry level balls.  Got my Path Rising shipped for $70 total.

I have a Hot Cell and I purchased it for a dry/low volume shot and it doesn't work for that.  I don't want to bash the ball because I made a bad/uniformed purchase.

For myself, the reaction I get out of this ball is that it gets into the hook phase really early.  My slow mo videos I've taken show the ball starting to turn on its axis (hook phase) almost right when it gets to the arrows.  I'm not sure if saying turn on its axis is the best description, but I'll add that my ball has around six inches of oil flare rings when it comes off the ball return.  NOT what I was looking for.  I wanted a ball that would get thru fried heads and mid lane but in my opinion the strong core of the Hot Cell doesn't help on those conditions.

I've taken the cover to 3000k with polish and it isn't helping.  The strong core in the Hot Cell wants to turn over fast no matter what I do with the cover.  My next step will be having my PSO put a flare reducing hole in it.

Like I said I don't want to bash the ball, but for myself either the ball doesn't match up with my style or I just haven't a found a condition it works on yet.

Last thing to add is my pin is just right of my ring finger with MB kicked out right a couple inches.  This drilling is just like my other asymmetric ball, the No Rules Solid.
I have the No Rules Solid polished up at 3000k and it works good on a broken down house shot but when it gets to dry it will lose too much energy getting back to the pocket and start to lose carry.


   

I bowl on patterns that dry up really front to back, backends are fast, and second shift which is totally dry majority of the time. My bag consists of Medium to "weak" pearls. The Rave 4" pin (snake oil), Turbo/R 4.25" pin (OOB), and Tropical breeze 5 1/8" pin (3k).

At first I thought having a weak ball like the breeze with its long pin to pap layout was a mistake, it turned out to be my best ball for second shift. I had owned two other breezes (s/p) with flaring layouts which were my one two combo for THS where I used to bowl.

I did try the blue hammer and it worked on bone dry lanes with light 4k. With so so results at this house. But it was my "HSK" at another league at another house.

If you're wanting to try urethane, the Pitch Blue would be the best option. I have the black and purple hammers (with would compare with the Pitch Black and Pitch Blue), and the purple one is far better on dry conditions than the black. Black is better suited on fresh. Still waiting for my hot cell to arrive, but I'm not getting it for the burn.