Before I ordered my No Mercy last week I had asked a couple drillers around the area if they had any experience with the ball, both said they had drilled a few up and that the feedback was not good (they both had only used the #1 layout). On this site I gleaned alot of very useful information on what makes or breaks this ball in terms of drilling.
I presented a layout to my driller that was meticulous in so far as assuring the HART was on my track and that the CG was postioned in the POSITIVE quadrant. To achieve this the NM's pin, cg and Hart MUST be lined up properly with no major offsets of the HART. Most of the used NM's I see being sold have the cg in the negative position and the hart on or clipping the thumb. As well, I decided to not go with drlling #1 and instead compromise more between #1 and #7, this resulted in the pin being 3 3/8ths from my PAP. After league last night I tested the NM out and it absolutely blew my mind! It reved up like a Brunswick on Steroids (much like MoRich)and had as powerful a continuation as I have ever seen. The pair I bowled on were like night and day. On the left lane I had to stand on 32 and throw a big swing shot just right of 5th arrow to about the 7 board while the right lane was tight allowing me to stand on 20 and play just left of second arrow. Results: 258,300 (and this was after I struggled all night in league throwing a miserable 625 series).
The way the NM reved up in the backend was simply amazing! It had a decent midlane read but it really started rolling heavily at about 40 feet and didn't let up one iota for the remaining 20 feet. It kept the pins low and just blew the rack apart.
Drill this baby correctly and as Hammer says: "Have A Nice Day".
Edited on 12/2/2006 3:26 PM
Edited on 12/2/2006 4:12 PM