Dry Lanes: What ball do you use?

[vdubtx]

Touchy much ICEMAN?

[Aslan]

1) Yes…I agree that if you throw any ball slow enough you can make it hook. Granted it will hit like a feather and miss every corner spare shot.

2) The "PerfectScale" isn't perfect…but it's more reliable than leaving what a ball should/could/might/can do up to committee. And since nobody on this website can agree on the color of Iceman's poo (I'm voting grey w/ice chips)…I'll rely on the PerfectScale.

3) I won $4 because I bet good money that ANY attempt to call out Iceman on ANYTHING would result in him trying to challenge said person to go to Plattsburg. Granted, I LOST $4 because I bet he would include a reference to his pair of Deadly Aims at some point in his initial response. So I broke even.

[J Anderson]

I'm not voting in this poll because I haven't seen truly dry lanes since Broad River lanes closed 26 years ago. They stopped oiling altogether about a year before they closed.

[Aslan]

I'm not voting in this poll because I haven't seen truly dry lanes since Broad River lanes closed 26 years ago. They stopped oiling altogether about a year before they closed.

I agree. I've seen it twice, same center. Once I think their oil machine was broke so they didn't oil at all that weekend and once over a Thanksgiving weekend/holiday where they obviously didn't bother to re-oil after Wednesday leagues before the holiday.

[foreverincamo]

I use my Brunswick Ringer Platinum Pearl. Drilled pin up above the ring finger with the CG centered between the fingers and the thumb. It's a symmetrical core ball with a low-friction coverstock. I keep it polished and clean and it handles dry, burned up lanes with relative ease yet hits hard. I carry quite well with it.

[RobLV1]

I use my Brunswick Ringer Platinum Pearl. Drilled pin up above the ring finger. It's a symmetrical core ball with a low-friction coverstock. I keep it polished and clean and it handles dry, burned up lanes with relative ease yet his hard. I carry quite well with it.

I too use the Platinum Pearl Ringer, but with the pin below and slightly right of the ring finger for more length, and the cg in the center of the grip for minimum turn. It works really well in my scratch league where the high rev kids have burned up everything to the left of me and the track players have burnd up everything to the right of me. It allows me to play my little slice of the pie for one more game (hopefully the last one).

[Mike White]

I too use the Platinum Pearl Ringer, but with the pin below and slightly right of the ring finger for more length, and the cg in the center of the grip for minimum turn. It works really well in my scratch league where the high rev kids have burned up everything to the left of me and the track players have burnd up everything to the right of me. It allows me to play my little slice of the pie for one more game (hopefully the last one).

The Ringer is a symmetrical ball, moving the CG doesn't change the shape of the ball's path.

The only reason to move the CG away from the center of the grip is if you plan on drilling a balance hole, that would otherwise make the ball out of spec.

This info isn't for you Rob (I know it won't sink in) but for others that read this and mistakenly think you know something about layouts.

[Shaneshu87]

i use my black widow pearl or grape vibe

[Hammer]

If my reactive resin Raw Hammer Anger ball is hooking too much on the lanes and I can't correct it I go to my urethane Blue Hammer bowling ball. I changed the surface from the OOB 4000 surface dull to 2000 dull surface. It works better for me that way with the release I have.

[dnhoffman]

On a house shot? Um, a pearl....sheesh