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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Joker-1 on November 19, 2014, 09:20:19 AM
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Lot of people continuously buy the newest and latest ball claiming that the ball has died. The reaction is maybe a 1/4 of what it used to be, but i still carry around my black taboo. Whats the oldest ball you still use?
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I don't have anything crazy old probably my 900 global break s75, I can speak for a guy on my Monday scratch league he is averaging 230 with a black ice battle zone.
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brunswick bvp punisher
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X Factor
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Cuda/C from 1995.
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I have a Ebonite Clear Wolf from 1996. Best spare/burnt lane ball ever.
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Visionary Ogre Pearl,Warlock DC Pink always take these two balls with me.
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It depends on the night &/or pattern if known ahead of time... But X-Factor on occasion but original Shift most times.
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Right now I have a Y2K. Ball still flares/hooks a ton on lighter oil conditions.
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I still use my original Blue Vibe. I've had it for 6+ years, a few resurfaces, a couple oil extractions and it still moves the same it did when I first got it. It always seems like I can throw it when nothing else works and start stringing strikes
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MoRich Mojave, had that thing for a while.
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Visionary Slate Blue Gargoyle ,Ebonite Tornado, and Black Widow Bite.
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I only use Quantums and the last real Quantum made (not any of the Bowlingball.com remakes) was about 15 years ago. Won a tourney this past summer with the Midnight Blue, one of the original 3 introduced January 1994. I still carry the Forest Green, Midnight Blue, Scarlet urethane everywhere and they are going on 21 years old. Good stuff!
I had a Cuda until a couple of years ago. Almost 20 years with that one as well.
3835
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On a regular basis I still use a pair of 1997 Visionary Blue Warlocks. One is drilled 2 inch pin to PAP for tournament or sport patterns. As far as I can tell, they don't appear to have lost much, if any, hook.
I have been using them much more this season than in past seasons because our house is rotating between four different patterns and even though they are supposed to be adhering to a schedule of which pattern to lay down, due to maintenance issues with the lane machine or to the mechanics not knowing which button to push or the schedule, you never really know which pattern is out there until you bowl. The Blue Warlock has always been a reliable benchmark ball for me so I end up using it more often than not.
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I use a vintage 1972 caramel Columbia plastic ball (now called a White Dot) as a spare ball. -- JohnP
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Right now, since I've been playing on mostly med-dryish conditions, and I've noticed that there is a certain ball movement which carries best on those conditions....I've gone Retro and am using these:
Ebonite Savage: 2001; Brunswick Demo Zone: 2000; and an LT-48 Gold: 1998
Roto Grip Saturn: 2006 Roto Grip Ultra-Sonic: 2004; Azo Fantasy-X: 2002
I do have much newer equipment, but with my revs, and the low volumes I see, there's no pressing need to use them.
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Nomad Solid
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I actively still use:
Rogue cell (averaged 249 with it over 6 in a small tourney on Sunday)
Second dimension...when it cracks I'll seriously bury the ball in the ground with a tombstone...
Theory...love it on synthetics!
I have older stuff but I don't use it-use it.
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My two ball league arsenal is a Legends Black Pearl (2006) and a Legends World Class Reactive (2006).
For short tournament patterns I still take my Slate U-Dot from way back when.
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I regularly use an ancient Fab Red Hammer urethane. Rolled a 259 with it last week.
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Track Desert Heat...still money on dry
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Gold and Teal Rhino Pros. Raven Quantum and Norm Duke Signature Hammer. All still money balls.
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I have a Massive Damage in my locker that I occasionally bring out. It's one of those that I will never part with, along with my Avalanche Pearl Urethane. Sometimes you run across a ball that looking back you wish you had bought a few more of...
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For years I used an Icon2 at a center that loved it until it cracked in the last six or 8 months. Gorgeous reaction!
I also used a Sonic Boom at the same center!
Regards,
Luckylefty
PS Jesse James are you talking about a Demolition Zone. I loved mine! IS it you I sold it to? Drat on me! Why?
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Right now, since I've been playing on mostly med-dryish conditions, and I've noticed that there is a certain ball movement which carries best on those conditions....I've gone Retro and am using these:
Ebonite Savage: 2001; Brunswick Demo Zone: 2000; and an LT-48 Gold: 1998
Roto Grip Saturn: 2006 Roto Grip Ultra-Sonic: 2004; Azo Fantasy-X: 2002
I do have much newer equipment, but with my revs, and the low volumes I see, there's no pressing need to use them.
I think I sold that Ultra Sonic to you.
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For me, I still carry around my Fab Blue and Blue Pearl Hammers (1989). After that, I still have at the ready my Ebonite Turbo X and Xcalibur (1992).
BL.
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I still have a V-2 that I use occasionally.
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Blue Pearl Hammer
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The oldest bowling balls I carry consistently in my bag are my Fab Blue Hammer (dull finish) and Fab Burgundy Hammer (matte finish) that I bought in 1994. (The oldest piece sitting around in my closet is a Columbia 300 Gold Dot that I bought in 1989.)
The Blue Hammer, which I usually apply a 2000 grit pad to it, is used on house shots and sport patterns at 40 feet or less. The Burgundy Hammer, which I usually apply a 1000 grit pad to it, is used mostly as my spare ball. But I have used it on house shots and most recently on a 37-foot flat shot after the heads were already gone after 1 1/2 games bowled. Neither ball has ever been plugged and re-drilled.
For whatever it's worth, I've also used from time to time my Track NRg and Track Sensor II -- the latter is a personal favorite of mine. Both were purchased in 1995. I did have the NRg plugged and re-drilled because the pin was too far away from my axis point; the Sensor has never been plugged and re-drilled.
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Right now, since I've been playing on mostly med-dryish conditions, and I've noticed that there is a certain ball movement which carries best on those conditions....I've gone Retro and am using these:
Ebonite Savage: 2001; Brunswick Demo Zone: 2000; and an LT-48 Gold: 1998
Roto Grip Saturn: 2006 Roto Grip Ultra-Sonic: 2004; Azo Fantasy-X: 2002
I do have much newer equipment, but with my revs, and the low volumes I see, there's no pressing need to use them.
I think I sold that Ultra Sonic to you.
And I think I sold that Saturn to JJ :D . What a great ball the Saturn was. I haven't bowled in months and probably won't competitively until the summer, as I am rehabing a broken hand/wrist, but I have two fully plugged Vortex 2's ready to snap the ten out when I get back to action.
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First ball out of the bag is track kinetic energy. I also have a morich total annihlation.I have some oldies in the closet. Teal rhino, purple angle,predator pursuit, storm eraser and lane 1 pearl uranium.
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Hyroad, although its a 2014 pour.
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amf radar
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oldest ball in terms of release? blue vibe 2007 i just drilled another one over the summer....oldest ball that i have been throwing consistently iq tour solid that i drilled at the beginning of last season
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Roto Grip -- Rising Star -- ball still hits hard with many games on it!
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Oldest ball I am still throwing would have to be a Hammer "Hot Sauce Pearl" 2K with polish and just kills the THS
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Oldest ball I am still throwing would have to be a Hammer "Hot Sauce Pearl" 2K with polish and just kills the THS
Did you buy it from Beans?
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Hammer Hot Sauce Pearl. Oh if it were me I would Pick up an Arson Pearl, same core!
Regards,
Luckylefty
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I still use my Lane 1 Pearl Carbide.
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Oldest ball I am still throwing would have to be a Hammer "Hot Sauce Pearl" 2K with polish and just kills the THS
Did you buy it from Beans?
Actually I won from a ball raffle on the hammer web site!!!
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Roto grip mutant cell- so many games on it that it has become quite tame. Its my benchmark now
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Oldest ball I am still throwing would have to be a Hammer "Hot Sauce Pearl" 2K with polish and just kills the THS
Did you buy it from Beans?
Actually I won from a ball raffle on the hammer web site!!!
Ok, cool. I remember Beans having a bunch of em for sale at 1 point.
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Clutch Pearl. Had a Titan in until a few months ago.
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Morich Onslaught and Hercules. Threw both tonite, 245-258-205/708
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Roto Grip -- Rising Star -- ball still hits hard with many games on it!
I missed out on that one bad. I'm on my second wrecker trying to pretend!
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I had a HyRoad until I retired it recently. That ball was poured back in 2009. Currently the oldest is my Nomad Dagger which was poured back in 2010. Still a great ball that hits hard.
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Black U-Dot. That ball used to hook a ton. Now it's a spare ball!
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Track_Fanatic,
Funny you'd mention the Black U-Dot. I bought a dull cover one in late 1990 for the fresh during the short oil era. I even had it drilled stacked positive. Then the former ABC changed the rules for oiling lanes and with the higher volumes allowed, it instantly became a spare ball for me. I was so disappointed that I rolled that ball down a dirt hill and watched it meet its fate in a creek.
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Track_Fanatic,
Funny you'd mention the Black U-Dot. I bought a dull cover one in late 1990 for the fresh during the short oil era. I even had it drilled stacked positive. Then the former ABC changed the rules for oiling lanes and with the higher volumes allowed, it instantly became a spare ball for me. I was so disappointed that I rolled that ball down a dirt hill and watched it meet its fate in a creek.
I shot my first 300 with that ball back in 1988. The good ol' days(for my generation) Prior to that I was using a Columbia yellow dot. Man, that ball took a beating.
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Natural pearl, smooth as butter for very short, dry patterns, and a great spare ball....
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Track_Fanatic,
I can't tell you how much I miss my 9R Yellow Dot. That ball helped me through college, heh-heh-heh, between 1986 and 1988. Then the shell went brittle on me, a common occurrence I later learned. It's also the last time I've used a polyester ball of any kind.
Interestingly, everyone talk about inflated averages. In 1988, using that Yellow Dot, I had the highest average in the house where I bowled, like a 202, and I shot the only 700 series in that place during that bowling season.
But yeah, we're talking wood lanes. The bowling alley also closed after that season. The last I saw the actual building became a church.
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I had an old Brunswick charger that was burgundy in color that appeared to have cork in the ball. Talking about ripping your thumb apart! lol.
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Brunswick Blazing Inferno! I think is not that old, but is the oldest ball I have ;D ;D
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Columbia 300 Blue Dot which I got back in 1995.
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Ebonite green gyro urethane from 1991. My spare/dry lane ball
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Right now, since I've been playing on mostly med-dryish conditions, and I've noticed that there is a certain ball movement which carries best on those conditions....I've gone Retro and am using these:
Ebonite Savage: 2001; Brunswick Demo Zone: 2000; and an LT-48 Gold: 1998
Roto Grip Saturn: 2006 Roto Grip Ultra-Sonic: 2004; Azo Fantasy-X: 2002
I do have much newer equipment, but with my revs, and the low volumes I see, there's no pressing need to use them.
I think I sold that Ultra Sonic to you.
And I think I sold that Saturn to JJ :D . What a great ball the Saturn was. I haven't bowled in months and probably won't competitively until the summer, as I am rehabing a broken hand/wrist, but I have two fully plugged Vortex 2's ready to snap the ten out when I get back to action.
@Northface and @DP3: YES YOU DID!!! LOL! I am loving both of them to death.
I just bowled in the TNBA Eastern Regional Tourny this past weekend and used both. That Saturn really came in handy, DP3! I was able to step all the way in, and play 30 out to 13 and the ball would just hold like crazy, set up and blow the hole up! I played away from everyone else, since we were bowling the third shift. I won some real nice dollar$$ with this ball, while most people tried to fight the burn. And.....I NEVER GOT IT RE-DRILLED. I'm rolling it just the way you sold it to me. I trust your taste in layouts!! Thank you very much! ;)
Though I didn't shoot 700.....680 scratch (with sticks) ain't bad!
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There you go. That was a special ball. It always hit like a ton from anywhere on the lane.
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Mmm, Ebonite Savage.
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I still have a Special Agent that I closed the cover up on that I still use for med-dry conditions.
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The Awesome Flip. Morich.
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Lane 1 golden nugget. Ball still hits like a tank.
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I still use an ebonite turbo X still hits hard. Lol
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Still occasionally but rarely use an old green Quantum.
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Oldest I have used this year is an Ebonite Mission although my pink Hammer from 1991 still makes occasional appearances when lanes are fried
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Update. Oldest ball in bag that I'm using once again: Columbia 300 Gold Dot, a pearl urethane piece that's, like, an 82-84 hardness. Purchased it in 1989. Carried 200+ average using it (on wood lanes during the old ABC short oil era). It was my go-to ball whenever I needed to keep things right of the head pin. Now it's virtually a spare ball piece unless the lanes are super torched.
See 123bowl.com link: http://www.123bowl.com/ball.cfm?ballid=518 (http://www.123bowl.com/ball.cfm?ballid=518)
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Quantum Sage Tour - May 1997 Release
Thing is ~14.5 years old in great condition and is a THS killer! ;D
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I wasn't going to post on this, but after struggling mightily on a flat 27 ft pattern for 2 weeks in my singles league, I got a 30 year old black diamond out of my garage, and beat my previous high in the league by about 100 pins over 4 games. I had tried polished urethane and plastic on the pattern, but the old hard rubber ball handled the carry down way better than the other stuff. Guess I will add the Black Diamond to my short oil tournament arsenal.
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Brunswick Karma Purple/Pink Pearl!
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Oldest ball I commonly use is a Faball 3D Offset Maxxx, rolls like a champ but is beat to hell due to its many games of use. Oldest ball I own is a Black Hammer but it doesn't see much use and is in poor condition.
I wasn't going to post on this, but after struggling mightily on a flat 27 ft pattern for 2 weeks in my singles league, I got a 30 year old black diamond out of my garage, and beat my previous high in the league by about 100 pins over 4 games. I had tried polished urethane and plastic on the pattern, but the old hard rubber ball handled the carry down way better than the other stuff. Guess I will add the Black Diamond to my short oil tournament arsenal.
27 feet is ridiculous! :o I sometimes get tempted to try out rubber bowling balls, even if just for fun, but I don't know if anyone would want to drill one up for me due to the smell.
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Clear wolf
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lane 1 black raspberry
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Original Burgundy Hammer, Danger Zone, Sapphire Pearl Zone
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I don't bowl often...last three or four years, none at all aside from two office parties. But one of the two-ball totes that went in the center contained my Roto RH (the Roto equivalent to the Yellow Dot bleeders) and my Rotogrip Gold Grenade (mid 80's pearl urethane).
The shelves still also have my Vector II, U2, Nail (the original) and a few others that I would not hesitate to use today if I ever found the interest in throwing a few lines...
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My original CELL, but it's not with me daily. Usually when I travel and bowl houses I don't know anything about. 2 bags, one 3 ball bag for league (HyRoad, Wrecker & spare ball) and a 2 ball traveling bag (Cell & Lane 1 Chainsaw).
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Storm, Flame Series, Red Hot is my dry lanes ball, rarely use it though, maybe once or twice this year. Purchased around 2002, maybe?