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Equipment Boards => Hammer => Topic started by: Leonidas on March 27, 2008, 11:17:05 PM

Title: Sling Blade to Doom
Post by: Leonidas on March 27, 2008, 11:17:05 PM

Hello Hammerheads,
i would like to know how a sling blade (OOB) would compare to my doom (4000 no polish).
A friend give his sling blade away (for free) and asked me to drill it RICO. I still think its a hype thing and don't know how its going to react. To get a slight idea what is going to be i would appreciate any idea about how comparable this to balls are. For me my actual Doom with 5x5 Layout is a kind off control Ball. I also used to have 2 other drilling's as skid snap and max leverage which give away.

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it's almost always the indian and not the arrow
yes and i like this one also
don't go for a strike, go for a sure spare, we need 5 pins to win

Title: Re: Sling Blade to Doom
Post by: KDawg77 on March 28, 2008, 12:30:11 PM

The Sling Blade goes fairly long with the coverstock and has a great backend, but it's more even rolling due to the lower RG and Diff. I love mine (second 300 ball) and I just redrilled it for RICO. The ball still hits after twelve holes have been plugged/drilled (8 plugs/4 drilled).
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Title: Re: Sling Blade to Doom
Post by: janderson on March 28, 2008, 01:29:13 PM

Owned both of them with almost the identical drill and identical surface prep on both.  To me the Doom is about 4 boards stronger in total amount of hook, has a smoother break point, and gets into a roll quicker than the sling blade.

A RICO drill sounds like a good choice for the sling blade to me - even out that breakpoint a little bit and get it into an earlier roll... assuming that's what you want, that is.
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Edited on 3/28/2008 1:29 PM

Title: Re: Sling Blade to Doom
Post by: Leonidas on March 29, 2008, 01:29:59 PM

Thank you, K-Dawg77 and janderson that was exactly the information i was looking for. Great to see again how this forum works, i will go with the RICO drilling.
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it's almost always the indian and not the arrow
yes and i like this one also
don't go for a strike, go for a sure spare, we need 5 pins to win