The Brunswick BVP™ and Monster™ ball lines are engineered to provide the widest available range of reactions at the popular moderate price point. This line-up allows any bowler to find the ball performance they’re looking for at a price they can afford.

Technology – Skid/Snap Power
The BVP Punisher combines the inverted bell core introduced in the BVP Nemesis and BVP Goliath with a new reactive coverstock, N’Control PowerBoost, to create a medium hook potential ball that delivers a very strong skid/snap arc characteristic.

The combination of the new N’Control PowerBoost coverstock with the medium-RG BVP inverted bell core creates more length in the oil than previous Brunswick balls with medium hook potentials. This exceptional length characteristic helps the Punisher save reaction for the back-end, allowing it to match up well on medium and drier fresh lane conditions. The Punisher is also an excellent go-to ball when the heads have broken down and higher hook potential balls are reacting too soon on the lane.

The new N’Control PowerBoost coverstock gives the Punisher strong back-end recovery with good entry angle into the pocket on medium volume patterns when other balls are arcing up too soon and are flat on the back-end. While most medium hook potential balls struggle when encountering carrydown, the Punisher bites through it and still delivers pin punishing power.

Reaction Characteristics
Out of the Box: With its High Gloss Polish finish the BVP Punisher will match up well on medium-dry to dry conditions.
When dulled: The BPV Punisher hooking action will increase and its arc will become more even, creating a better match-up for oily lane conditions and help blend the over/under reactions seen on wet/dry lane conditions.

Coverstock
N'Control PowerBoost

Color:  
Blue Pearl / Silver Pearl

Hardness: 76-78

Factory Finish
High Gloss Polish

More Information

Core Dynamics
RG Max: 2.580”  
RG Min: 2.536”
RG Diff: 0.044”
RG Avg: 4.6
Performance
Hook Potential: 90
Length: 135
Breakpoint Shape: 95

Available Weights
10-16 Pounds

I drilled this ball with a 5" pin to PAP above my ring finger, 3/4" pos side no hole.

This ball surprised me with how well it read the midlane with the high RG drilling. I was expecting a dry lane ball with lots of skid/snap. The reaction is very predictable. My flare rings are about 1/4" apart in the oil. This ball can really open up a medium dry house shot. This is a perfect compliment to the Rampage(4.5" pin to PAP low pin) when it reads to early. A very good medium dry shot ball. Not for fried lanes. I think I am going to have to drill a Power Groove for dry.
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Corey Clayton
Brunswick Amateur Staff

first of all.. bvp stands for brunswick value performance.. just thought i'd correct that.
Pros: Excellent in mid to dry conditions. Good carry through, likes to keep the pins low. When the ball gets going there's no stopping it.. it seriously punishes the pins
Cons: A little bit of oil throws the ball out a LOT. Not a ball i would start out with, but only use when the lanes are broken down more.

This was my first purchase when i started bowling. It was good when it came right out of the box, especially because my average score jumped from 100 to 150, but as the title suggests, this ball is a value performance ball, meaning it's mid-range performance. The back end isn't bad for it's price, it has a pretty impressive angle, but when i started bowling with my other balls, this ball kind of started to get out of focus. I would use it only if the lanes are too dry for my high performance balls.

my arsenal
-bvp punisher (150 avg)
-hammer hawg wild (170 avg)
-hammer black widow (170 avg)
-columbia mr. hyde (160 avg)
-brunswick smoking inferno (190)

This was the first ball I bought when I got back into bowling following a 10 year break.  Given the last reactive balled I owned was  T2 Rhino Pro, I've got to say this thing was a bit of a disappointment.  It's dreadful in heavy oil, and gets worse once the lanes begin to break down, buring out and basically failing to react if it hits oil down the lane.  It's particularly bad on synthetic lanes.  On dry wood it's an absolute hoot, and believe me I'd pull it out of the bag without any hesitation.  However on anything else it barely reacts, doesn't carry and has practically nothing on it when it hits.  I have a 15 year old Columbia white dot plastic ball that hooks more and hits harder than this thing.  I haven't tried altering the coverstock or playing around with it as I've purchased better balls and can't really be bothered.  

All in all, a great ball for hitting 10 pins and having a bit of a laugh on rundown wooden lanes.

I'm mostly a Storm guy, but somehow this ball makes it out of my bag.  The only other Brunswick ball I owned was a Monster Frenzy, so I bought this thinking it would be similar.  Very much like the old Frenzy only with a few more muscles.  Ball hates carrydown more than any ball I've every seen.  But, this ball works great on a fresh THS with good backends.  Goes long with a very nice, hard, roll toward the pins.  Very nicely priced for the bang you get out of it.
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