Move left and practice

Agreed. Practice, practice, practice.

I'll share a story in my Collegiate days.

Back at that time (early-mid 90s), we at Univ. of Nebraska had our practice time on Monday evenings. We worked on everything (a given for collegiates); however, one of the things our coaches had us do was before we could head home for the night, we all started at one end of the house, and on each lane, we had to take the 7 pin and the 10 pin *only off the rack. If you took more than that off, you stayed on that lane until you took just those two pins off. If you did it, you went to the next lane and did the same thing.

Keep in mind, most of us had classes the following day, but it went late into the night for some, where it took an hour or longer to go through the alley. The first person done on either men's or women's teams finished in 45 minutes. Also, keep in mind that we really weren't using plastic balls for spares back then either.. most of it was either pearl urethane, or flattening the wrist.

This drill and one other alternate technique I may do led me to picking up so many 6-7s and 6-7-10s, I wouldn't believe it. On the other side of that ledger, you'd think it would be impossible to miss a 6-pin to the right with keeping the ball on the lane, but I've done that, too.

BL.

What I've taken to doing is using plastic and trying to imagine that I am trying to hook the ball at the 9-pin. Now, I'm not talking about ripping the ball, but just giving it a nice turn like I do on most strike balls. I've found that doing that makes me feel like I have more room, and the plastic cover gets the ball sliding easily over to the 10. Sometimes I think we psyche ourselves out when shooting 10-pins.

I too throw plastic at my 10 pins. What works for me is that I use a suitcase release when I throw my plastic ball. I used to be terrible at picking up the 10 pin but since using plastic to shoot at it my percentage has gone way up 90-95% of the time.

Agree with avabob on the speed issue; for the 10 pin, I use a plastic ball and the same speed as the strike toss. I usually apply a little extra pressure with the thumb. On most 10 pin shots, my ball rolls over the thumb hole---which is fine with me.

and the further left you can go, and create a cross-lane angle, the wider the lane becomes for you to cover the 10 pin. look further down the lane, if you can.  get a buddy and go play low-ball during open bowling. lowest score wins, a 0 counts as an x or a /  and just simply get your muscles used to a certain rhythm to picking up that 10 pin.

Practice is extremely important as the others have said.  I stand far left and point my toes at the 10 and flatten my release.  I also agree with the thought that some try to throw the ball too hard.  I use whatever strike ball I'm using for that game so it is possible with practice to throw any ball straight.