A buddy of mine uses his Animal for dry lanes.  He also uses it for med oil and heavy.  I couldn't beleive until I actually seen it on night of practice.  My Doom was hooking too much because the lanes were so fried.  He kept using his animal and was doing great.

The ball burns up on the dry but still produces a decent hook and hit.  This is so different than reactive balls.  One day when the AR first came out I went to the pro shop to pick it up.  Well I had my animal with me.  I grabbed a pair of lanes to just try out the AR.  

The first I threw with my AR was nuts.  The ball hooked big time and hit the 7 pin.  I couldn't keep the AR on the right side of the lane.  I took out my Animal to compare it to my AR on this burnt up house shot.  Well my Animal was right in the pocket.  I would never of believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.  It was then that I realized that a ball does burn it's energy and wont hook as much on dry lanes.  

I think you only see this with particle balls for the most part. The reactive balls just keep hooking more and more as the lanes get more dry.  Particle balls seem to hook less as the lanes get more dry.  I have found this to really be true.

Now there is a point where the particles will hook more and more.  But once the lanes dry to a certain point then the particle balls start hooking less.

If you want a great dry lane ball then find yourself a particle ball.  If you can find an animal you should be good to go.

I noticed what seemed to be working on these screaming backends fairly well was solid reactives with really dull covers. Seemed to controll the overreaction on the dry. Thinking about taking my freak down to 800 or 600.

Dj
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