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Joker-1

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oldest ball you carry around?
« on: November 19, 2014, 09:20:19 AM »
Lot of people continuously buy the newest and latest ball claiming that the ball has died. The reaction is maybe a 1/4 of what it used to be, but i still carry around my black taboo. Whats the oldest ball you still use?

 

tommyboy74

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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #46 on: November 20, 2014, 11:52:00 PM »
I had a HyRoad until I retired it recently.  That ball was poured back in 2009.  Currently the oldest is my Nomad Dagger which was poured back in 2010.  Still a great ball that hits hard.
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Track_Fanatic

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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #47 on: November 21, 2014, 12:13:49 AM »
Black U-Dot.  That ball used to hook a ton. Now it's a spare ball!

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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #48 on: November 21, 2014, 07:09:42 AM »
Track_Fanatic,

    Funny you'd mention the Black U-Dot. I bought a dull cover one in late 1990 for the fresh during the short oil era. I even had it drilled stacked positive. Then the former ABC changed the rules for oiling lanes and with the higher volumes allowed, it instantly became a spare ball for me. I was so disappointed that I rolled that ball down a dirt hill and watched it meet its fate in a creek.
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Track_Fanatic

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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #49 on: November 21, 2014, 07:16:56 AM »
Track_Fanatic,

    Funny you'd mention the Black U-Dot. I bought a dull cover one in late 1990 for the fresh during the short oil era. I even had it drilled stacked positive. Then the former ABC changed the rules for oiling lanes and with the higher volumes allowed, it instantly became a spare ball for me. I was so disappointed that I rolled that ball down a dirt hill and watched it meet its fate in a creek.

I shot my first 300 with that ball back in 1988.  The good ol' days(for my generation) Prior to that I was using a Columbia yellow dot. Man, that ball took a beating.
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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #50 on: November 21, 2014, 08:37:49 AM »
Natural pearl,  smooth as butter for very short, dry patterns, and a great spare ball....

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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #51 on: November 21, 2014, 09:21:29 AM »
Track_Fanatic,

   I can't tell you how much I miss my 9R Yellow Dot. That ball helped me through college, heh-heh-heh, between 1986 and 1988. Then the shell went brittle on me, a common occurrence I later learned. It's also the last time I've used a polyester ball of any kind.

   Interestingly, everyone talk about inflated averages. In 1988, using that Yellow Dot, I had the highest average in the house where I bowled, like a 202, and I shot the only 700 series in that place during that bowling season.

   But yeah, we're talking wood lanes. The bowling alley also closed after that season. The last I saw the actual building became a church.
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Track_Fanatic

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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #52 on: November 21, 2014, 03:12:26 PM »
I had an old Brunswick charger that was burgundy in color that appeared to have cork in the ball. Talking about ripping your thumb apart!  lol.

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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #53 on: November 22, 2014, 12:28:58 AM »
Brunswick Blazing Inferno! I think is not that old, but is the oldest ball I have  ;D ;D

jensm

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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #54 on: November 22, 2014, 01:01:44 AM »
Columbia 300 Blue Dot which I got back in 1995.
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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #55 on: November 24, 2014, 09:44:53 AM »
Ebonite green gyro urethane from 1991. My spare/dry lane ball
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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #56 on: November 24, 2014, 04:11:29 PM »
Right now, since I've been playing on mostly med-dryish conditions, and I've noticed that there is a certain ball movement which carries best on those conditions....I've gone Retro and am using these:

Ebonite Savage: 2001; Brunswick Demo Zone: 2000; and an LT-48 Gold: 1998
Roto Grip Saturn: 2006  Roto Grip Ultra-Sonic: 2004; Azo Fantasy-X: 2002

I do have much newer equipment, but with my revs, and the low volumes I see, there's no pressing need to use them.

I think I sold that Ultra Sonic to you.

And I think I sold that Saturn to JJ :D .  What a great ball the Saturn was.  I haven't bowled in months and probably won't competitively until the summer, as I am rehabing a broken hand/wrist, but I have two fully plugged Vortex 2's ready to snap the ten out when I get back to action.

@Northface and @DP3: YES YOU DID!!! LOL!  I am loving both of them to death.

 I just bowled in the TNBA Eastern Regional Tourny this past weekend and used both. That Saturn really came in handy, DP3! I was able to step all the way in, and play 30 out to 13 and the ball would just hold like crazy, set up and blow the hole up! I played away from everyone else, since we were bowling the third shift. I won some real nice dollar$$ with this ball, while most people tried to fight the burn. And.....I NEVER GOT IT RE-DRILLED. I'm rolling it just the way you sold it to me. I trust your taste in layouts!! Thank you very much!  ;)

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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #57 on: November 24, 2014, 07:10:34 PM »
There you go.  That was a special ball.  It always hit like a ton from anywhere on the lane.

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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #58 on: November 24, 2014, 07:47:09 PM »
Mmm, Ebonite Savage.

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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #59 on: November 25, 2014, 03:22:15 PM »
I still have a Special Agent that I closed the cover up on that I still use for med-dry conditions.

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Re: oldest ball you carry around?
« Reply #60 on: November 27, 2014, 04:08:41 PM »
The Awesome Flip. Morich.