Mounts Bowling

I've been giving some thought recently to what I've currently got in my bowling ball bag. I've got a good number of bowling balls that I haven't used in years and even a couple balls that were given to me used and plugged that I've never even drilled.

A while back my wife was kind of teasing me about the bowling balls I have lined up collecting dust and I finally decided a few months ago to pull one of them out of retirement and put it back to good use. The funny thing is the ball I decided to gram was my old Columbia Beast bowling ball that I purchased - or I should say my parents purchased for me - back in 1997.

The Columbia 300 Beast bowling ball is essentially a very small step up from a plastic bowling ball. It is made of urethane and because I bought it when I was averaging 150 in my teenage years it was drilled pretty much like a house ball.

One would expect this ball would provide me next to nothing compared to my new aggressive balls but little did I expect since I've been throwing this ball in league my average has increased dramatically and I've thrown two 800s and one 300 with it. Crazy!

Anyway; I wanted to post this mostly because I want to start inventorying the bowling balls I use and to help reference what I'm using in all the tournaments and leagues I bowl in. I will also be using pages like this in conjunction with my accomplishments pages to keep track of what balls I use when I bowl my honer scores and the like.

If you want to check out the Columbia Beast Bowling Ball for yourself you're going to have to monitor Ebay because this is an old ball and I haven't seen anyone throwing it in years. Weird too because it sure is nice for leagues for those of us with a lot of hand. In the future I'm going to try and upgrade this ball to a Storm Natural Bowling Ball but until then I'm going to continue enjoying my old Beast and look for even more honor scores. :)

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