I got this ball drilled around December, and its great!  I got it drilled with a balance hole for topwieght reasons.  Its great on medium to heavy oil.  If its dry and you throw crosslanes it wont come back and it will die, and if its dry and you throw straight down 2nd arrow or something it will just got far on the brooklyn.  Besides that it is a great ball on medium to heavy oil and synthetic lanes.  I am a 15 year old freshmen and i thought it worked great. I took 20th in Michigan with this ball down in Muskegon out of 105 bowlers.  I would give this ball a 9 out of 10 because besides the dry oil, it isn't great on extra heavy oil unless your going straight down the 6 board or so

UPDATE- I took my ball and had the coverstock resurfaced/refinished and it is the best thing i ever done.  Before i had it done, the coverstock along my trackline was getting very worn because i had played over 350 games with the ball and it had many little nicks... afterwards the roll was very consistant and the ball looked like new with no more nicks.  It rolled VERY nicely on extra heavy oil without having to go straight down the 6 board like i stated above and also held more energy when i got back into town and bowled on our crummy *cough* drier lanes haha.  Ball reacts just as good as when i got it
10 out of 10

UPDATE-  It has been about 2 weeks sense i got the coverstock refinished and it is back to crap... this ball refuses to hook and is my next ball to visit "The Shelf of Retirement"  Great well it lasted, 10 for 10 new, 5 for 10 after my 3-4 months with it...

UPDATE- I just got this ball resurfaced AGAIN by my highschool bowling coach, he used a different method besides sanding it and such and it is EXACTLY like when i bought it, 10 for 10!
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This is my second review with this ball.  I reviewed when it was new and now this monster has over 200 games on it.  I keep this ball well maintained.  I clean after every series with the reacta-clean from storm.  Okay ball cleaner not great but it gets me through a tuesday night.

This ball over the 200 games has ceratinly defined its place over the course of a 6 game night (3 league then 3 practice with college team).  This ball seems to only work well in the first game to a game and a half and then the last 2 games of a six game night.  I consistently shoot scores in the 240-270 range the first game, but then after that the lanes change drastically for me resulting in that I switch to my polished up super charge until games 5 and 6 in which I switch back to my ace and throw inside.  The ball is still pretty versatile.  In the first game on the house shot it seems to want to be outside.  I usually play from 9 out to 6 with about a 15 foot loft.  Then in the last two games after the lanes get too dry for the super charge, I switch back to the ace and play around 17 to 12 as the ball will hook up too much from the outside so I have to keep the ball in the inside oil as long as I can.  

This ball has storm layout number 2 on it.  Over the course of the 200 games it has not lost much hit on it.  It takes a little cleaner ball rotation to be able to hit with a loud noise and send some messangers but I can easily make that adjustment.  This ball is still not a straight players ball, I am a semi-stroker with some power loft in my game and I am forced to play a little belly with this ball even after 200+ games on it.  The smell is pretty well gone.  

Overall, still a pretty good ball, I would give it after 200+ games on it an 8.9 out of 10 because I can't use it after the first game until the last two in a six game set because of hit and ball reaction.
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1)Versatility leads to greatness
2)Be a man, stand up for yourself, blame the balls or the lanes
3)When you get a lucky strike, flex the big muscles of steel
4)Always have a deadeye approach to spares
5)Always have a backup plan
6)When you bowl bad and someone that wasn't there asked you how you did, just say i was bowling with a hot chick, so i bowled bad
7)Sex and bowling do go together somehow

15# ball drilled with the pin above and between the fingers and the rad in between the strong position a side hole was needed for this kind of layout...

all i have to say is that this ball loves to hook and then some...its nice and smooth on the heads and will clear it with ease and starts to rev in the midlane and the moment it hits the dry spot of the lane it takes off in the other direction like a racehorse coming out of the gates and will cover a good amount of boards in a short distance which is good from extreme angle entry...the only problem is, from my experience at least, is that sometimes the ball will flip too much on the backend and will at times hit high or worse leave nasty splits...i would definitely not recommend this ball on shorter oil patterns with fresh backends as the ball would tend out to hook early and burn up once it hits the pocket...hits the pins pretty well as they seem to explode from the point of impact...some players depending on how they play may have to play around with the cover of this ball to tame its aggressive backend reaction
another great ball by storm....
overall rating 9/10
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My personal specs are in my profile...

Balled is layed out pin above ring finger, I believe 4 3/4" from my axis.  MB in the strong position, with a weighthole drawn 6" from my center of grip through the CG.

The Ace clears the heads exceptionally well due to the particle pearl cover.  But that's about all the cover can do for the ball, in my hands.  I've found with this ball, that the cores just dominates the ball in the midlane, and makes this ball early with a hook set reaction for me.  I don't mind this reaction, I just find it extremely conditional in my hands.  The condition that I can use this ball best on is patterns with some type of carrydown.  This allows the ball to get exceptional length, with a strong reaction on the back.  This is what I was looking for out of the ball on fresher conditions.  

I wish I could go back and lay the ball out with the pin higher and above the bridge, with the MB just under and to the right of the thumb, to gain a little more length.  I would re-drill it, but I have a friend who wants to buy it from me, and with my latest craze in MoRich balls, The Shock and Awe is right up my alley!!

Overall, the ball is great, but too conditional for me.  Have seen is work for a lot of bowlers in this area, and has worked for me before just not as much as I would like.  This ball hits really hard, as do most storm balls, but loves to snap tens when missed right due to the shininess of the cover.  Great ball from storm, I just didn't have the layout match up with my game.
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Would this be a good ball to through on medium conditions?  If any1 wants to let me no email me at blinginboy630@yahoo.com

All of the other storm balls I have are excellent.  Storm is da best company

I finally got one and i got it drilled up to roll up early, and its awesome.  I bowl at a walled up house shot, and hit about 20 pushing to around 9 10 and comes right back to head pin.  Its awesome.

Awesome ball!!! It hits like a truck. This is the 3rd week that I've had it to bowl with. First night in league shot 646. Should have been more but missed a couple easy spares and on top of that had too much to drink. I have it drilled with the pin above the ring ringer and the RAD is to the right of the thumb with a balance hole. All I have to say is don't use it on flooded lanes. I did 2 weeks ago in a 3 free game session for the league and it didn't move at all. Last week though the lanes were on the dry side and I was playing between the 2nd and 3rd arrow and standing on the 25th board I think, 2 dots left of the middle. I was swinging it out to about 8-10 and it crushed the pocket. Even a few times I got it out to like the 5 board thinking I was gonna miss the headpin and surprisingly it came back and I struck. Great ball though. Cant wait to bowl tonight with it, I'm going for a 300, hopefully my 6th.