Columbia 300's Wine U-Dot is a high performance winner that surpasses all others on dry to medium lane conditions, synthetic lanes, or when the lanes tend to break down.
Designed to come to life on dry to medium lane conditions or when the lanes tend to break down. Columbia 300's Wine U-Dot is a high performance winner. The first of Columbia's 100% urethane bowling balls, it is still the perfect weapon even on synthetic lanes.
| Line | U-Dot |
|---|---|
| Color | Red |
| Coverstock | Urethane |
| Core | 3-piece |
| RG | |
| Differential | |
| Intermediate Diff | n/a |
| Factory finish | Sanded |
| Weights | 10 thru 16lbs |
5 Reviews
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champ0608
I found mine on the rack at the 8 lane center I worked at in college and used it to learn to bowl with. After bowling about 50 games a week for a couple years, exclusively with that old ball, I became a pretty good player. To this day I'm the only person to have shot 800 in that house, and I'm one of three bowlers with multiple 300s there, and I did it exclusively with the Wine U-Dot. It rolls great both dull and polished. It's very consistent, dependable, and predictable. It doesn't over-react or roll-out. It doesn't soak up oil. It will last forever. Yes you have to be dead flush if you expect to carry, and it won't hook well on modern volumes of oil, but considering its limitations, its one of the best ever made. Mine probably has 10,000 games on it by now and it still gets use.
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Nitrofisch
Overall I love this ball. It was my Dad's when it was brand new, but he has always thrown the Original Black Hammer and still does to this day. When I started wanting to throw a hook he gave me the U-dot and started throwing it but the span was too big so I got it plugged and redrilled for my hand and I threw my first 200 game with it and I threw my first 600 series with it. The ball is very easy to control, it makes a smooth predictable arc to the pocket, and if you let it, this dog will hunt! It was a Great ball in its day, it is a Great ball today, and it will be a Great ball every day from here on out, especially on league night!<scri
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zeker434
This ball was great in its day on dry wood surfaces. I used it as a backup for my Brunswick LT-48 on drier surfaces. However, it now has very little reaction on the surfaces that I currently bowl on. I have now polished the heck out of the ball and use it for my 7-pin ball (I'm a lefty). As opposed to the LT-48, this ball was more of a hooker. It went pretty straight for eighty percent of the way down the lane, then hooked nicely into the pocket. It tracked the classic old-timer pattern, much like the track that Walter Ray Williams uses today.
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cooljay1344
Its a good ball, but was even better 20 years ago. even now once in a while when the lanes are really dry or something, i bring it out. couple months ago i brought this ball out when the lanes got dry from crankers and i shot a 259, not bad for a 20 year old ball. ( shot that on wood lanes). these balls still got some juice. the only problem with this ball is it was drilled with this balancing hole on the side of the ball that i guess makes it hook earlier. so sometimes the ball hooks to early actually. the tendency with this ball though sometimes is it leaves you lots of ten pins.<scri
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stone nine pin
This was one of many U dots that were made. It was designed to hook less than the black u dot, but more than the limited slate u dot. In it's day when your black u dot or (vector 2 u dot in my case) started hooking too much, you pulled out the wine and played the same line. It was a great team. Now every ball in the U dot line reacts the same because the oil used is heavier. Now you can go look at any bowling alley and see four or five as house balls. it is kinda sad, but technology outdates bowling balls every few years. I keep mine around for corner spares only.
