Radical Intel Recon Review

I just have short-term memory loss. Just turned 45. Good shot. Great shot. Just got upgraded from good to great. What's up, guys? Brunick's back and so too is the Intel with the radical Intel Recon. Now, the Intel Recon has a modified Intel core wrapped with HK22 Pearl. Can't wait to see what it does in the lanes for me with Spectal

running, of course. But before we get to all that, please subscribe to my channel if you haven't already. Now, let's see this new Intel Recon in action. All right, Phil must have ran out of Intels in his stash, so he called the factory and said, "Let's make something new, but let's modify the core just a smidge." We're gonna talk about that. Look at that Intel core. RG is unchanged. 2.483. 483, but the differential has been knocked down a couple points down to 032. Was 035, now

it's 032. It's wrapped with HK22. Pearl, that's it. He keeps all the other stuff secret. So, bowling on crown jewel pattern. My favorite house shot. 43 ft of oil. A lot of oil in the middle, none to the outside, just the way we like it. So, we're going to test this ball out. We got Spectto running. I'm going to start it out. We're going to move it in and we're going to put this ball through the paces. I don't believe I've ever tested an Intel on the channel, so it'll be interesting to see. I I don't know. We'll find out. I like the color change.

I like the purple. The last one was like blue and gray. This one's purple and gray. Looks great. Good job to whoever picked those colors. All right, starting on 15. They are hooking outside. Now, is the Intel Recon supposed to replace what was once like sneak attack or is like we call on the podcast, which

is on Wednesdays at 3 p.m. for the most part, snack attack. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty tight flare rings. Not seeing a whole lot, but they are dry on the outside. my last video of the day. But this is a ball for drier lanes, right? So, we want to test it. Last ball of the day. That's in more. That's pretty pure. Pretty pure rolling. I got that in the oil and it still kind

of dug in and did its job. So, in back in the day, Intel, Intel Pearl, Intel Pearl, SC, you know, I probably drilled them all. I don't remember throwing them a whole lot. Now, I don't normally get into these type of bowling balls when I bowl league or when I bowl tournaments or whatever. I just never see that kind of friction ever. I don't bowl tournaments anymore except for USBC Nationals. That's with an asterisk now. But,

you know, I just never really got to use the Intels as much as I thought I would. Bonus, however, great ball for me. Ah, it's hooking. Yeah, try to get away with that. Yeah, the bonus solid. I shot 300 with that at the House of Pain. Actually, the first week, fun story, that we were off of COVID restriction. We can go back to bowling, which was sometime in

September, I think. So, we quit in March. We didn't come back till September. And I shot 300 the first night out, which was kind of cool. And then 800 the next week after that. Let's move a zone. But Intel has always been a fan favorite, especially after it gets discontinued. People always scramble for them. Same happened with counterattack, sneak attack, all of them.

This thing hooks more than I thought it was going to. This has got some life to it, you know, with that HK22 cover. It does have a little bit more kick to it than I remember in the past. But going back to, you know, scrambling for bowling balls when they get discontinued. Now, when we discontinue a ball, it doesn't mean that you can't get them anymore. It means we're not making them anymore. So, the factory is done. Kapoot out. So, I always suggest if you really like a low-end ball from Radical or any brand for any ball really, pick

up another one if you really want to keep that one aside for a rainy day. There's not a ton of great low-end options from the companies that have high performance covers. All right, let's focus up. Oh, you dirty dog. You almost ate pinned on me. All right, getting into the friction early. It's seeing it kind of rolling forward on me. So, this next shot, I'm going to get my eyes in. Keep it more in the oil. Keep it more direct.

See what happens. I think it'll see it fine. I don't think it'll overkid. I think we're going on enough friction, but I don't know. All right, let's try to keep this in more carry. All right, that was a lot in more. Way too in. So, let's keep moving it. We're going to move into 25 now

where I think this ball is going to be perfect because you got to figure, all right, you're pretty much not going to start with this ball unless you just have, you know, really dry lanes or you don't have a lot of speed, whatever. But this is where you would typically be in a zone where you're transitioning from your stronger stuff and you get into the drier lane stuff. So, let's try it into 25.

That looked really good. Set up nice carry the 10. It's always what we worry about with lower end stuff where the cores just don't have the differential and the flare potential to kind of change direction super hard is you're going to be limited. They are control balling balls, but this ball does have a little bit of oomph at the back. Pearl cover kind of makes up for a little bit of that. If this was a solid, then it would be a lot smoother at the brake.

Oh, that's a great shot. Not skid flippy. Not meant to be skid flippy either. Could you make it skid flippy? Yeah, you could. You got a lot of hand. You know, I'm sure if you watch the Throwbot video, the high-end bowler, that ball goes sideways. But I don't have 400 RPMs anymore. I just don't. Let's try another shot here. Last one in this zone, I think. Maybe. I don't

remember. Uh oh, that's hooking. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Hooks a lot on the outside. So, what have we learned so far? We've learned that it's not a huge skid flipping bowling ball, but when it sees friction, it will stand up to it. So, let's move into 30 now. Let's start opening the angles and see if a ball like this can handle it. I don't know. Could it? It could.

And I'm pretty sure that was three shots in the last zone. I just have short-term memory loss. Just turned 45. Good shot. Great shot. Just got upgraded from good to great. Yeah, I think this is the zone. That last zone was okay, but I'm looking for maximum amount of miss room. You're bowling on a house shot, you should be, too. You want to be able to throw it to the right and let it kind of

set into the pocket. You miss in, it holds. That's the whole point. You want a ball that'll give you both. Get your feet in the right spot and find that spot, that zone here. I think we found it cuz that was softer to the right. That look great. Now that's in. Does it hook? Oh, just enough. Just enough. That's what we worry about when a ball that doesn't flare a lot and that is pretty shiny out of the box. Is it going to overkid?

And it did not. I mean, it skid further because I got it through the oil more, but it still had enough to go light mixer and kick out that four. All right, last shot here. Let's throw another one like that. Good first one. Yes. No, too good off my hand. It's time for that last zone. We've tried all the other zones. We're going to move into 35 now and really test out and see if this

thing has the chops cuz I don't know. So far it's it's hooked on me quite a bit. It handled it. That's kind of crazy that a low 030s ball can do that. Now granted the numbers probably do jump up a little bit. probably 040ish after drilling for me. But this ball is

actually stronger than advertised. I don't necessarily know that this is going to be that dry lane ball. I don't know. I think it's a little stronger for that. This core, I do believe, is sneaky strong. The numbers don't indicate that. It's in the oil. Okay, I got the corners out. But when

you get it in the oil, that's when you see it's not quite a high performance ball. The cover is still plenty strong, don't get me wrong. HK22 Pearl, but there are stronger covers than that. Let's throw one more shot here and then we're going to move. I don't really know which I'm going to move to. I think a ball like this, hard to say where it fits in my bag. I'm going to throw it at the house of pain. It probably look great there. That's better.

Yeah. Got in the oil, but got around it more. So, I did strike from inside pretty easy. Now, the zones, I'm going to move back to 20. I'm going to try my hand again at playing it straight with less less hand, more speed, and just stay away from the dry. That's where I'm going back to 20. Kind of the intent of this ball is to play in this zone. Something like that. So, let's try.

Tell you what, if you're more speed dominant and you just want to throw it through the dry like that, you probably can get away with it with the Intel Recon. So, that's what I learned from this ball. Little tricky ball cuz it's a little stronger than I thought it was going to be. So, that's all for this one. Phil, you got your stash back in order. So, check out the merch. Inside.com is where you can get that. And on the radical bowling pages is where you can find our podcast. Wednesdays at 3 p.m. usually. Check out the crew. Memberships are available to you. And if nothing else, please

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