lost two patriots yesterday.
those lighter patriots have zero durability; i'd put them on par with pro at best. i lost one and bagged a freshie yesterday at BRP (lost it on the same hole, same shot, same spot, awesome) and the first tree i hit bent the parting line WAAAAAAY down.
so now i'm buying some of the stiffer pinnacle and i find i really do like them. gonna be terrible in the cold/wet but they'll last so much longer. i'm down to 3 of the original 5. :\ of course i bought two more but my first one was getting really nice and flippy, would've been a roller in a month or two.
kc roc is getting uglier and uglier; put a fresh one in the bag and kept on rockin'. it has parts where the bead is just GONE, dunno if it hit a sharp rock or what, but it still holds any line whatsoever and won't really turn yet. very impressed with kc plastic. they need to make more stuff in it.
in other words, they need to make polecats and teebirds in it.
stiff star teebird got used a lot yesterday due to the wind, started throwing rollers too since it's pretty OS it won't turn easily from a well-gauged two finger roller. it's funny how bulletproof that thing is, it's remarkably similar to 750 plastic or the super stiff pinnacle.
really got to see what could hack it in the wind yesterday. pretty much just the stiff star TB, my xxx and my superflat, freaky OS giant. even fresh vip giants were turning into that wind and not coming back. i never really threw my tb into a headwind directly; that would've been disastrous, but it held to the crosswind for the most part.