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I picked up this ball from Next Level PS. He's a great person to do business with. Anyway, I was going for length with a mild arc on the backend. I ended up going with NLPS recommendation of a 1.5 inch pin to PAP with a 5.75 inch MB to pap. Balls starting stats were 14.3 lbs. The pin is about 4 inches and the starting topweight was 2.7 oz. There is a huge weight hole on my VAL at thumb height. The pin is maybe 4 inches right of ring finger. Cg ended up above and right of the thumbhole. The mb is just right of the thumbhole.
This cover is very clean. Even with this early roll drill, the ball doesn't even think of hooking until it exits the oil and has gone a few feet into the dry. I tried it on a fresh house shot playing right up ten. This was doable, but not advisable because you will have little margin for error. I put the ball away and went to something more aggressive. There were five of us on the pair, and the lanes quickly broke down. I took out the Classic Zone Red Pin again. Now I could swing the lane. Carry was great and I had a comfortable amount of area on the lane. The ball easily cleared the drying heads and still arced on the backend. My Columbia Ego was breaking too sharply on all of that dry. The result was more ten pin leaves and splits. The Cl Zone RP had more length and a milder backend. The result was a better entry angle and much better carry.
If you like strong core, weak coverstock balls, this is a great ball for you. It needs a lot of dry to work, but is a valuable tool for the heavy handed on late shifts or short oil. My ball is drilled to arc, and it does that. I'm sure a skid snap reaction would be easily attainable with a different drilling. You have many options with this core.
I'm tempted to try another Cl Zone RP with more of a leveraged pin and an early roll MB placement. I bet that would work really well for me on a fresh house shot. I really like the way this ball rolls and hits.
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