A stroker with a reactive resin ball with a pancake core.

I'll be bowling more tourney this year and many of the summer tourney's have very dry conditions. I've used breezes, slingshots, urethane, to older scouts pre ebo with the hockey puck core - oh and my spare balls. But, I never used a reactive balls with a traditional pancake core.

I can talk to my driller and ask him his advice, but I'm just curious what you would do for me. I'm a stroker with 16.5 mph average down lane and around 285-300 revs. I've seen someone do a plastic ball layout() on a reactive/pancake ball. And the other was a lable drill.

+1 that's what its all about. Author joke hehe.

I would teach you to reduce your rev rate and use a stronger ball than a pancake core.

xrayjay - your stats are not far from mine.

For the burn I had been using a roto scream. It does what is should, but lately I have found a different solution:

Last summer (seems like eons ago) I noticed that a strong ball at 3000 would come back for me when I moved inside. I had trouble with balls burning out when I moved inside many other times. I have done amazingly well with this.

If you have a strong piece laying around, I suggest throwing 3000 or a light polish and try moving inside when the lanes get dry, just to see what happens.

My fear is a plastic ball with low revs will have a lot of deflection.

PBA Plastic Ball Layout should suffice.

http://wiki.bowlingchat.net/wiki/index.php?title=PBA_Plastic_Ball_Layout

If you want a weak reaction just do a label layout with the cg located to give about 3/4 oz of side weight.  Then you can use a low balance hole, if needed, to strengthen it.  For maximum strength use the PBA Plastic Ball Layout already mentioned.  --  JohnP