...kind of "thuddy" in sound or something. ....
Immediately niced for thuddy sounds. Couldn't put my finger on why I didn't like X comets at first, but they do seem to improve with age.
I lost my most worn X comet the other day, pretty bummed have to say. They are very straight out of the box, it's almost too bad that even the most stable comets I've found tend to be simply very, very "stable" in the sense that they go straight as all heck. Forces me to bookend with an OS mold.
Generally when I lose a seasoned disc it turns me off of the mold for a while, which it has done in this case. Dejected, I took a stack of US mids out to the field the other day to see which one could best do an impression of beat-in comet or absolutely thrashed rancho roc...
Mirage, Tursas, and Vertex are all as close as it gets off the shelf, I think. Mirage is a little shorter, but still very, very long for a "putter"... it's clearly a mini mid. I'd probably bag this and call it good if I wasn't bagging a Spin for turnover approaches.
Tursas is a super long mid. The thing flies fast and glidey without being one of those obnoxious "slow driver" style molds like an archer or the like, which basically looks like a squashed leopard or sting. Turns over from flat and consistently shows fade... actually very un-comet like, as it requires a good 80%+ to get that true left-to-right flight path. The problem with this is that I'm not going to be throwing this shot in a field typically, but rather want something I can rely on to hyzer flip around trees etc. with finesse.
The Vertex is what I've landed on at this point - not as long as the Tursas but that's not saying much. Seems almost like a longer Spin or Magic, and if you check out the
profile you'll see there's a good reason for this - basically a stretched version of the Magic. What I am looking for is something without massive glide and really about a 4-speed, as I need HST to activate on a more finessed toss for hyzer flips in the woods as I mentioned. The faster, more speed sensitive stuff A. is likely to get me in trouble on an errant throw, B. overlaps with slow US fairways and C. flies too much like 5/5/0/2 on a powered down shot. On the other hand, I need fast enough for there to be separation between this slot and the Spin as mentioned... I will bag the Spin for the foreseeable future until a throwing Dagger beats in sufficiently to cover that truly flippy-to-neutral upshot slot.
Anyway, that's the deal. I still own a fresh X comet which I may continue to bag in a wasp/Zcomet/Xcomet/vertex configuration, or I might just skip the X comet and call it good, even with 3-4 mid molds (if I decide to toss in a mortar or justice or something) as a filthy mold maximalist.