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3 Fairway Drivers That Would Fit ANY Bag [Probably IMHO] // Grackle vs FD vs Stalker
Join Bodanza DG Podcast as we review three must-have fairway drivers: Grackle, FD, and Stalker. Perfect for beginners & pros alike!
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welcome back to Bonanza disc golf and to another patreon sponsored bagger Bennett we're at Bill Frederick disc golf course just outside of Orlando and we're going to be taking a look at the mint discs grackle we're going to be putting it up against two other discs that are a seven speeds because it's a seven five negative one two don't always trust the flight numbers but they're a good place to start we're gonna be looking at a c-line FD and this is kind of funny I didn't even realize a page peer stalker which is the same number seven five negative one two and both of these discs I actually found in the water of this course on hole five that didn't have names or numbers on them so that's kind of hysterical uh that we're playing with discs that we found here against a new grackle so these will be a little bit beaten a little bit used I want to see how all three of these fly against each other and see if this has a spot because 75 negative one two sounds a lot like 7502 which are discs that I really like I have a birdie disc golf supply strike which is a little beat in that probably flies closer to seven five negative one two but could this be just an off the rack replacement for it not 100 sure but I also have never thrown an FD this says it has six Glide but it's a green one so I've heard it's a little more overstable but we're gonna play six holes here 12 through 17 at both there's a bunch of different shot shapes that we'll get to play them with and see if you should think about bagging the grackle or throw it in the bin it's got a hole number one 350 feet straight away just leave it out there flat when I played this hole before by myself I'd like to throw the essence on it which is a little flippier so I think a little flat a little right should be good the one thing I know about the sublime plastic is off the gate especially since it's humid out here it's not it feels like it's a little slippery compared to some other Plastics but just keep the nose down nice and simple oh yeah baby well a little short I think but that's just I like that because it just Glides straight on that straight it's just a rope for a while yeah yeah these discs are so nice I love this category get there and going short all right both those are little nose up they say ESP stalker that's more of the line because that's going to skip right up to it and not go over maybe a little short they'll only be slightly short but the stalker and the cracker were a little shorter than the FD so there might be something to the glidingness rumor all right oh not bad low nope perfect there is a headwind which I forgot about and I'm glad that I forgot about it and the disc didn't now for the Fuda hi dang it man part birdie not a bad way to start stalker has the Box all right nothing crazy here 355 very downhill OB long it's nice that these are all neutral to understable that all these if you throw them flat down there they should turn because we're going downhill so you got to keep the nose down and they should get back past that last Gap and be really happy honestly the stalker feels a little thicker in your hand than these two the profiles let's talk real fast Graco has kind of like whatever you see from mint not really a dome but like a very slight Dome similar to the goats that they sent me out earlier good video check that out later it does have a relatively High parting line for one of these discs so let me see yeah the FD has a lot more Dome than both these other ones which is why I imagine it glided a little bit easier to that 350 on the last hole The Parting line of the grackle seems a little higher than the FD similar to the stalker and the stalker I think the reason it feels a little deeper is because it's got a micro bead down here it feels very comfortable in your hand the stalker does so does the grackle I think it'll beat in to be really comfortable even in this humidity because it does feel tacky but I kind of have to like force my thumb into it c-line FD feels good also feels very slippery but all these should be pretty solid for this hole not that down though oh nose was down grackle up next oh so I tried to overcompensate and threw it into the woods huh that is the correction oh no it's too straight sit down though please sit down okay good got some thick grass easy sit okay A little patent pending oh no Get Lucky all right Little Miss stalker don't complicate it nice and simple that's it nice shot can't even put it yet I think double bogey ends it but single bogey still doable flew all there it's very straight I love it straight with the slightest bit of finish I think these will all beat in very quickly to be just super straight laser beams which is like a disc that you definitely need in your bag in the seven or eight speed category not spinning enough I was going to blame the wind but it's never the wind's fault it's always your fault unfortunately basically you want to punch straight out of here and just keep it straight because the wind is going to push it left and then once it starts to show any Edge it's going to push itself left so just a straight shot 288 man I love throwing that thing a little low that's a birdie whoa get stable oh never mind that's perfect never mind that's absolutely parked same shot with the grackle that thing does have six Glide compared to these that thing is wig out here oh I hate that disc apparently what a terrible terrible shot I keep over rotating I'm not one and that one alone got a forehand roller scramble yes keep going get around that and I'll have a putt let's go good shot gotta make this putt otherwise I have to go three for three on the back foreign gotta get the next three unfortunately it's 3 36. uphill with left to right so it should be good because I think it flies very similar to this stalker the stalker is very flat though I mean this is honestly for all no it's got a little dumb I was gonna say it's pretty flat it's close the grackle has a little more finish than a lot of the other ones but two bogeys I have to get these three otherwise it's going to the patreon and no matter what I just want to get a good reading of how it flies FD has the Box oh the wind did not do what I thought it would do get more turn okay that's good two and dummies a little anhyzer actually instead of straight to slight hyzer come on grackle Glide Glide Glide Glide Glide Glide oh two nose up that seemed like the best shot but it is far away I think I expected that to act more like my Essence I thought out of my hand that was pretty good I think it has a little bit of extra stability which is kind of really nice like it's I think that and the stock are very similar the stalker might be slightly less stable now but it's because it's a little beat in it honestly flies very similar to a 7502 which might be interesting because I recall that the Diamondback from mint is like nine five negative two two but Mason Ford is throwing it in a more controlled driver slot like maybe his getaway was Dynamic and so it might just be a numbering thing where it's just hard to say oh I wanted that to stay up so bad no too low I aimed at the band too and it did not drop it man I hit my point all right the next one a roller can get to the eagle because it's like 450 foot part the four graco's still back in the Box we're gonna try a roller with all these get under oh I really like that okay just get it down on the ground a little learner hey whoa that kind of started stabling out of it like fast all right I'm not gonna rollers it's got to be perfect with the grackle more angle than I think get it down yes stand up stand up stand up stand up whoa I am batter rollers yep oh yeah Hefty but too nice I don't think it'll make my bag but I might I might put it up against the strikes because I like that a lot oh yeah oh yeah you gotta play in the woods some more that'd be a lot of fun okay I know this is super low percentage but I'm gonna try backhand it straight through this Gap a dumb shot but we're gonna try it actually the forehand roller is a really good shot whatever last hole you can kind of barely see it through those trees over there we're coming all the way back here all right so we got a straight ahead shot finishing to the left 385. normally I'd want a distance boy on this grackle's getting given away even if I Ace it but I would say so far I mean I think this is a really solid disc there's just a lot in this category and this is good for mint players I think to have something because I love this type of discs for the woods very shapeable I wish I could get my shot right with it this time but it is very similar to these other ones FD just slightly longer because it's slightly glidier but that makes this more workable because you won't have to wait for it to get out of lines as fast so really really solid discs FD gonna be up first I'm glad I reviewed this because this might fight for a spot it's so humid a little late stand up that actually my favorite spot I think that might be like close to pin High that should be fine too it's a nice wide Fairway for me appreciate it I cannot get the release right on that desk I'm gonna go to a field after this and throw it a couple times but I cannot get the release right it does feel slightly more shallow I think a part of it is like my hands get progressively sweatier until I throw it but it does feel slightly more shallow and I think the plastic is a little bit more slippery than the other two I never feel confident throwing it I don't think it is definitely a good disc though and there are other Plastics and I think that's going to beat into a really nice plastic but you'll have to ask my patreon because I won't have the disc anymore gonna be honest I'm not making that put obstructed so we're just going to call that plus three pars and a bogey to the field everyone's always like so surprised that I'm wanting to move to Denver from Florida but I gotta say being a sweaty Little Italian guy in this humidity like I am I look like I took a shower I'm soaking wet like these it feels so good but I like just it's a little bit it feels a little shallower than the other ones and a little more slick so just getting a good grip on it to rip it does not feel good but I'm gonna try to throw a good shot with it and then replicate it with the other two put a little turn on it oh that's such a nice flight I really wish I could be confident in releasing that because that's such a good flight so it holds that angle a lot longer wow those are not super not far all right we set the bag up I'm going to say overall my verdict on these is it's a bag of disk all of them are actually and you don't hear a lot about the stalker anymore I don't even know if Paige still throws it honestly but that's a really good mold I think it fits a little more comfortably and releases a little easier out of my hands I kind of like slightly deeper seven speeds which not like deep by any means but the strike is slightly deeper it just allows me to feel like I can rip it a little bit more without it slipping off my hands 104 meters so times probably close to 345 and then the FD oh the FD went kind of really far you guys are so slanted I'm sorry I'm a little lazy right now and I gotta film another 18 holder hopefully I don't suck 121 meters no 400 feet it's a Smash Dude holy crap congrats to my Patron for requesting the disc and then me losing I seem to always lose these patreon ones almost every time it's kind of a bad habit appreciate you guys all for watching check out the last patreon sponsor back in it right down there check out my mint to scope video another good video right down there that's all okay love you bye