hammer no mercy drilled for left handed

[lsbaxter24]

I have a quick quistion for anybody that may be able to help me...i just picked up my new hammer bowling ball from haveing it drilled...the question is if you see in the directions..for lefted handed bowlers..reverse for left handed bowlers...would you not put the pin under the same finger hole?...what im saying is if you look at the derections on this site for drilling the hammer no mercy beatn ball i had them drill #1 most aggressive and low track one....the pin is under what would be the middle finger of a right handed bowler the person who drilled my copyed this and the pin ends up under what is my ring finger...is this not wrong?! and if so will this take anything away from how the ball reacts? thannks for any help. LS

[BubbaRay]

Isbaxter welcome to the Hammer message board. Is it possible to post a pic of the ball . This way we can see where the pin / Cg / and hart is positioned. It really depends on your axis co-ordinates. If the pro shop guy layed it out according to your axis co-ordinates the pin could be in either spot. But if your left handed the Cg should be right of your grip center and the Hart should be right of your thumb hole.

[lsbaxter24]

will work on give me a few minutes thanks for the quick reply...

[lsbaxter24]

ok so the image:eek: from my camera is too large for this forum any ideas? lol

[lsbaxter24]

i think this will work the hart is where my finger is in the picture thanks for the help

[BubbaRay]

WOW. Let me ask you this. Where did you buy this NM ? The reason I ask is the Pin / Cg / and Hart are in a weird line. The Hart is way way out of alignment with the Pin and CG.

With you being left handed, the Pin should be close to being under your middle finger, the Cg to the right of your center grip, and the Hart tot he right of your thumb hole.

The thing that really bothers me is the Pin / Cg / and Hart not being somewhat in line before drilling. Did you throw the ball yet? If so how did it react?

[lsbaxter24]

have not rolled this ball yet will roll on thursday night bought it from bowling .com.....im going to do some research on this tonight and see if i can get some answers on why they are not aligned properly

[lsbaxter24]

wow you are right i just looked at this ball and the directions to drill and it was not even line up right before they drilled this ball..... its like they never looked at the paper that came with the ball....now what? lol...:mad:

[TenPinSniper]

Well if you are left handed the ball looks fine to me. Weird because of the PIN to HART and the CG being so far of line.

How did the ball weight out? Does the ball have a weight hole, does not look like it, but got make sure.

The lucky thing here is that you had a PIN in ball... if this ball was PIN out. Well not so good probably.

[BubbaRay]

I did some editing and even with the pin uder your ring finger and the Hart right of your thumb where they should be , It still puts the Cg on the wrong side of the grip. TenPin, would this not be a better drill for him?

[TenPinSniper]

have not rolled this ball yet will roll on thursday night bought it from bowling .com.....im going to do some research on this tonight and see if i can get some answers on why they are not aligned properly

wow you are right i just looked at this ball and the directions to drill and it was not even line up right before they drilled this ball..... its like they never looked at the paper that came with the ball....now what? lol...:mad:

Let us know how it rolls.... the reason they're not aligned is due to Mfg... don't really think this is a defect, jusy one of those oddities. Sure the driller drilled it the best he could considering, what you gave him to work with.

[BubbaRay]

Right now like TenPin said, throw it fiirst and let us know how it reacts and if you like the reaction.

[lsbaxter24]

I can tell you what happend whoever drilled this ball payed no attention to the directions and did not align the ball up properly if you look at the picture you can see that the ball needs to be rotated more to get the hart lined up right

[lsbaxter24]

but you guys are right i will let the ally know before i bowl....and just see how it reacts...hate to plug a new ball and re-drill......but thanks a bunch you guys are great! and very helpfull thanks and i will let you know how it goes

[TenPinSniper]

I did some editing and even with the pin uder your ring finger and the Hart right of your thumb where they should be , It still puts the Cg on the wrong side of the grip. TenPin, would this not be a better drill for him?

That drilling would also work too. Just a matter of what the proshop thought would be best for the situation. It's all a matter of what you have the vision to see.

I can tell you what happend whoever drilled this ball payed no attention to the directions and did not align the ball up properly if you look at the picture you can see that the ball needs to be rotated more to get the hart lined up right

Did you take this ball to a local proshop?

To me it looks like this drilling will be fine, it sounds like you track low. (Is that correct?

The deeper the HART is placed into the ball HART the strong the ball reaction. If you don't like the drill, you might try a surface change.

[lsbaxter24]

well i guess its a case of it is what it is and i will just have to roll the ball to see how it is...i already intended to have to make some kind of a ajustment or as you said just change the surface...time will tell but its just disapointing .to have a brand new ball and not be sure of the drilling and what it is going to do.....again thanks everyone and i will let you know how it goes....:D

[TenPinSniper]

Clear your head of any doubt, if you have doubt, before you start... just not good.

Here is the deal, you have some good positive side weight, which will help the ball roll up on heavier oil. The HART is a strong position. The ball you have is a left handed ball per se (They don't make left handed bowling balls), but this is as close as you get to having one.

This ball should be very playable.

Let us know this ball works for you.

[BubbaRay]

Don't be disgruntled. He did the best he could with what the ball dictated. I am sure you will be fine with the ball. Roll it and let us know.