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LaneHammer20

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Hornet really is a dry lane ball!
« on: December 09, 2009, 11:06:14 PM »
Picked up a Hornet from JS on here, had it plugged to pin in ring finger with weight 2-3 inches away from thumbm took ball to 2000 abralon. I thought this ball was going to be farily strong, man was I wrong.

Tried it on a fresh shot, which is 40ft true medium oil with very clean backs, no way, would not get back to the pocket, had to throw it at the pocket, and carry was so so. Started with something else and left Hornet in bag.

After the set which they had dried considerably in the track area, we were bowling alot of better bowlers and everyone was using a fairly aggresive reactive piece. I was standing very deep with my BPR and had to keep my speed up. The line wass great with that ball, but would have liked to get in the track area and keep a fairly stait line.

Stayed after, had the guy keep the lane on. Threw a bunch of shots with the Hornet playing starit up 10 with normal speedf and revs. The ball was not the ball I saw before league, it rolled really heavy in that part of the lane, and just roled all the way through the pins, awesome carry, you could pull it or push it and it would find the pocket with great carry.

This is a unique ball that I now know what all the talk was about, can't wait to get it on a true drier shot whehn I really need it.. They could have been drier and it would have worked better probably
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charlest

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Re: Hornet really is a dry lane ball!
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2009, 08:18:34 AM »
And you had the ball at P2000 grit dull!
Its stock finish is roughly that with polish.

You really don't even want to think of medium-light oil for this ball. Maybe if your leagues begins with medium-light, then you can use this for the 3rd game, maybe.

It gets length on almost any condition, short of true toast, AND needs to see a lot of dry. Then it will make a strong turn, with a strong drilling.

This is basically a dry to light oil ball. It took LM a long time to come out with this one.
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LaneHammer20

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Re: Hornet really is a dry lane ball!
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2009, 08:51:30 AM »
ya, i don't even want to know how long it would go with polish on top.

This really is a dry lane ball, my Link with a very close drill hooks alot more. Which is not what I wanted out of the Link.
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