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    House balls hurt my thumb. Edges are too rough. I have thumb slugs that are beveled out to my liking in all my balls. Very soft on the thumb.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Greenday View Post
    House balls hurt my thumb. Edges are too rough. I have thumb slugs that are beveled out to my liking in all my balls. Very soft on the thumb.
    i got my first thumb slug put in my HRR and im hooked
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    Quote Originally Posted by Greenday View Post
    I can't use house balls. If the ball doesn't feel right in my hand, I can't throw it right. I'm actually having molds made of the thumbhole of my Frantic since it's perfect. I'm going to have the other four drilled exactly like it.
    Exactly I can't throw a houseball anymore either. I tried like 2 months ago when my finger insert flew out of my backlash never to be seen again. Fit issues and just couldn't throw it right.

    I used just my spare ball a couple of times mostly if i get fustrated (very rarely nowadays). Once in awhile if I have a date ( cause chicks love that cosmic bowling) I show up with just that cause it glows, their drunk, and I look cool to them (girls not in the know). lol
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    House balls....... drilled to fit 50 people and have hundreds if not thousands of games on them.....leave 'em on the rack !

    Spare balls........ when all else fails.....pul it out and use it. In most cases on burned lanes they'll hook just the right amount !
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    Quote Originally Posted by I suck at bowling View Post
    I know several people that will throw plastic on short/dry lanes and bowl great. No carry issues what so ever.

    Keep in mind they all have rev rates 500+.

    My rev rate isn't that high so I just slow the ball speed down to about 14 mph
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    You can use whatever ball you that you think will create more strikes. I know there were times where I've used my plastic ball and threw better strikes, than my strike ball. I just felt like I wasn't fully utilizing my $250 ball, so instead of using the better ball (plastic) to throw the strikes, I stuck with the more expensive strike ball to TRY and manage to throw strikes
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