Brunswick Rhino Metallic Blue/Black Review

Hey everybody and welcome to another edition of Lainside Reviews. And on this episode, we're going to be joining the herd, crashing some pins with the new Brunswick Rhino. [Music]

All right, guys. So, welcome back. As always, I'm the bearded beast, Rob Johnson, joined once again by Scoops Porter. And as we said, we're looking at Brunswick's brand new Rhino. Now, this is their newest entry in the entry line. But, as we've seen from Brunswick before, entry line does not mean entry-line performance. So, why don't you tell us a little bit about the ball scoops? The Rhino has the low differential light bulb core, which we've seen in other Brunswick products and very successful. It has R16 reactive cover stock, which gives it length with

hook and slow response to friction, so it doesn't overreact on dry lanes. Yeah, for those of you who are out there who have a uh high rev rate or a lot of uh side rotation, this ball's going to be really good because it doesn't react to the friction very quickly. uh which means it's going to get down lane and then it's going to read and hook into the pocket. But rather than listening to us talk about it, why don't we take it lane side and see how it's stacked

up. All right, guys. Here we have Wayne Porter, our low-speed low rev player. He's bowling a Kegel Main Street oil pattern. Uh now, as we said, this has the uh the light bulb core in it. It's low differential. Um which is really good because it's not going to see a ton of flare. Yeah. Helps it not overreact to friction and still gives you great carry like that. Yeah. Tons of because it is a um the the core itself doesn't expend so much energy. It has a ton down

lane. This is my one of my favorite cores of all time. I'm telling you. Yeah. Not that you don't own like three or four balls with this core. Every ball I try to get cuz I'm never disappointed in this weight block. Now Wayne, you'll see Wayne is actually even though we're on fresh, he's playing just a tiny bit inside from his his regular line. Yeah. Just tighten up a little bit because it is not a super strong ball. Yeah. But it does have a great reaction and a good read. Yeah. And for him, you know, he really liked it because he could just

straighten it up and the ball didn't react until it got to the pins. But it had tons of continuation, tons of push through the pins. It was counted. Yeah. One, two, three. Yep. All 10 in the pit. Now, here you are, Scoops. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, look at that pin slide across. Oh, that's what I mean. It still has for an entryline ball, it still has all that energy and all that carry that just seems to be blowing blowing the rack apart. Now, you're playing a little straighter, too. Yes. which I enjoyed because I got to play a little

straighter, get those corners carried out. I didn't have to move into um to bounce it. To bounce it. Yeah. It just I got to play it straight down the lane. Now, this is two or three years ago. This was your regular shot. Yes. Yes. This is the way I used to play and actually I've been playing a lot more on our house shot similar to this and been getting back to it. But u And I mean you've scored very well on it. So this is this is definitely a ball that you could play on the fresh. Yeah. And play a long time. Yes. And that that's something that uh we don't get to do a lot in the past. Exactly. Yeah. We have

a lot of friction to the outside as we've said before and the lanes tend to dry up pretty fast. And oh, see you pulled that one in a little bit and that's the nice thing because it's not going to overflare. Yeah. You're going to have that little extra bump into the inside. Exactly. It doesn't overreact. Now, here I am. Now, I I had the pleasure of throwing this ball on two different conditions. Now, uh I threw this on uh the CTF sport pattern, which is uh very similar to I guess about halfway between the Wolf and the Cheetah. Um and this ball saved my butt.

Yeah. Um you can see on a fresh condition like this, it allows me to play very straight. Yeah. Uh so if I was having problems uh looping the ball or trying to get the ball to work, I can just straighten up and let it go. You can see I can throw it a little bit harder. But when I played this on the sport pattern, I was actually able to move out to where I usually play and swing the ball. Where on a sport pattern like that, usually they say you would move to the right. Yeah. And play it down. I was actually able to swing this

ball because it wasn't reacting to that friction. They gave you that great option with the lanes that we're on were very high friction. Yeah. We were on two different kinds of wood. Guardian in the front and deck wood in the back. Yeah. And uh you couldn't tell the way Rob was playing the the Rhino. It was very smooth. And uh actually another guy watched him play the Rhino and switched to the Rhino after making match play. Yeah. And uh gave it a good run. But uh Yeah. No, I I really liked I like the look of this ball. It's very very The

colors on the five different ones they've chosen are very dramatic. Yes. Um I particularly like the red and gold and black. Um but you can see I'm hitting the side of that ball. It allows me to put as much turn on it as I want and it's not gonna overreact. It just gets down lane and walks in. Well, for somebody like me who generally tries to play up the back of the ball, but occasionally, you know, gets a little lazy and comes off the side, this ball doesn't make me pay for it. Yes. And I think that's good for any bowler. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Now, here's Cam. You've

seen Cam before. He is our ultra high rev player. And you can see he he's playing a little straighter, but uh look at that pin action. Wow. Um this does remind me of the old Rhinos, the Rhino Pro series that came out. It uh it's definitely a throwback to them, and I'm glad they brought this ball back. Now, it's funny. I actually have the Teal Pro, which has a light bulb core. Yes. Uh I have an original Wine Rhino. Yes. And now I have this. And I can play all of them um very similarly and get great

carry. Yeah. So, for those of you who are looking for that old technology, you can move into this Rhino without having to spend hundreds of dollars to get an old ballact and get the exact same performance, which I really liked. Yeah. Like stacking this up against an older one with the newer cover stock on it, it uh it really stepped it up for for today's condition. Yeah. And and I mean, you guys can see here with Cam especially, we talk about retaining energy for when it hits the pins. Wow. Oh, there were four pins thrown at that

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