...while running the risk of being flamed, it was a lot less than I expected.  The guy throwing the ball has a TON of hand, there was ample amounts of oil, the ball was left OOB, and it was a THS with decent backends.  16.75-17.00 mph ball speed, mid 400's with around 30 degrees of axis tilt.  Can wheel a White Dot if he had to.  THE VG he punched out seemed to really glide a lot cleaner through the midlane where some of his other equipment made a better read.  It's drilled pin over bridge(about 5" to PAP) with around 4.75" PAP to key.  With the change in weather, it's barely above 20 degrees right now, there's always a change in the landscape of the shot this time of year.  However, last night, bowlers with hand and a little surface fared well as the shot really broke down nicely and the twisters could wheel it midway through the second game and needed only to kick out corners from there on in.  It left a couple of us sctaching our melons.  I've got one I'm about to have punched out and we changed our game plan to drill the VG after see it labor last night.  Even if it's a little strong for me, as I'm a little less hand(375-400 RPM) a little more ball speed(17.0-17.3) and didn't want to see the same result when mine was punched out and would gladly tweak the cover-as the R2X cover seems very receptive to alterations with the Dimensions & Gravity Shifts.  At this point, we kinda decided on a 4.25"x 4.00" with a 2" pin buffer.  However, a devilsh grin on his face as I left last night tells me he's got other ideas.  As far as his pill is concerned, I was wondering if we took the cover down to around 1000-1500 and put a little compound/polish on the ball so it might read the midlanes a little better with the lower grit and take a little harder move to the hole with some polish.
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Edited on 11/21/2008 10:04 AM

Edited on 11/21/2008 3:03 PM

After throwing upwards of eight to 10 games last night, on several pairs, after many games of bowling, my buddy has informed me of a couple of things.  #1)The ball worked nicely after the lanes had broken down.  It appeared the lack of midlane read worked out great with some chances to thrown the ball on a pattern that had been broken down. #2)Some of the mass bias has been removed during drilling that has affected the core dynamics in such a fashion that the drilling is actually weaker than was intended.  This info might be contrary to Storm's Key Drilling info sheet.  He's already got another one on order and we had solidified a plan for my drilling, as well.  4.5x60 with a hint of bottom weight to get a stronger midlane read.  I'm giddy about the aspects of drilling the ball now.  Yahoo!
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Return with your shield or on it.  Strength and honor.

"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."-Nick Faldo

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I drilled mine on tuesday. 5x5 with 2" pin buffer (same as my dimension at 4000 abralon).

The ball is absolutely amazing!!! It seemed to read the lane sooner than my dimension, but the backend on the ball is by far stronger than the dimension. I was roughly 7 boards farther left with my feet with the Virtual Gravity.

It is really hard to explain. I was able to move as far left as I wanted and had no problem with carry especially with an oiler ball. I was also amazed to see that if i hit too much friction outside it still came back, left flat 10 on one of the shots.

Also the ball seems to help you if you miss-hit the ball at the bottom of the swing. It still comes up and hits pretty hard. This ball keeps the pins low which is something I haven't seen out of many new releases from any company lately