As promised, here is my Havoc mini review, after rougly 7 games with the ball.
FOR CHARLEST: This ball is indeed stronger than the Ragin Inferno.....but in a different manner. It rolls up sooner (probably the leverage drilling). I have nothing drilled leverage, so I figured why not try it on this ball.
LANE CONDITION: 38FT buffed to 44FT, Heavy in the middles, and tapered out to the gutter. WOOD lanes.
LINE: I tried this ball all over the lane, and it came back from everywhere. The line I ended up playing was my feet on 30, sending the ball out from 20, over 17 at the arrows and over 7 board down the lane. This same line with the Raging Inferno had the Raging come up much later down the lane. If I dumped it outside too soon, the Havoc used up most of its energy there. Which is very strange for me, because on a post somewhere here in the last few days I have stated that I have never really had a ball burn up on me. This one did. I was shocked. When I hit my mark, this ball worked GREAT. Definately a bargain in the midprice range.
REACTION: EARLY!!! However it is very sensative to oil. If you have oil, the ball go until it encounters friction. If I kept it in the oil long enough it retained enough energy to almost seem skid flip in the backend. I fully think that with a light coat of Clean n Sheen this will make this ball the benchmark ball that I am looking for. I am going to hold off on that for right now though, because until I recieve the Animal that I intend on dulling down, this ball will be my oiler.
IMPACT: This ball hits very strong. Very similiar hit to my Thrash. The main thing I noticed with this ball is that I did not leave anything that I did not deserve to leave. I had it hit so hard a couple of times, that I just saw the headpin fly in front of it after hitting the side board.
Readability: With a little more useage, I should be able to know what to do with any other ball I have. This is kind of wishful thinking, but the clean n sheen should tame it down quite a bit.
OVERALL: I know I drilled it leverage, but this ball moves! Definately NOT the medium oil ball that it is supposed to be. This core in a pearl would have been more of the medium ball. With that said, I am not complaining about this ball one bit. For the PRICE------everyone should have this ball in their bag. This ball EASILY out performs the Dyno Thane Anomaly.
Once I have some more games on the ball, I will post a review.
