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Gamma TNT2 Pro Plus 17L (1.24) vs Pacific Prime Natural Gut 16

Prime Natural Gut 16 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where TNT2 Pro Plus 17L (1.24) is 22 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gamma

TNT2 Pro Plus 17L (1.24)

Nylon · 17L ga

Pacific

Prime Natural Gut 16

Gut · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
14912th pct
851st pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
1810th pct
142nd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9490th pct
9596th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.645th pct
4.440th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.50580th pct
0.45358th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.11076th pct
0.10367th pct

Bars are percentile against all 788 strings, and the marked side is the one that measures better, which is not always the one you want. A firmer bed is worse for your elbow and better for your control, and no measurement knows which of those you came for.

Which one wins, by problem

Each string's standing on the site's rankings, out of every measured string in the database. This is where a comparison stops being arithmetic and starts being a decision.

Swapping between them: what tension?

Bed stiffness is published at one reference tension, so the only honest conversion is to scale it. These are starting points from 52 lb, not prescriptions. The calculator takes your own tension.

Coming from TNT2 Pro Plus 17L (1.24) at 52 lb

String Prime Natural Gut 16 at 70.0 lb 31.8 kg

Clamped. The proportional answer was 91.1 lb, outside what most frames are rated for. These two are too far apart in stiffness to match by tension alone.

Coming from Prime Natural Gut 16 at 52 lb

String TNT2 Pro Plus 17L (1.24) at 30.0 lb 13.6 kg

Clamped. The proportional answer was 29.7 lb, outside what most frames are rated for.

Hybrid: what if you used both?

Estimated, not measured. No hybrid combination has been tested as a bed. These figures are the two strings' own lab measurements weighted by how much of the bed each one actually is. Treat them as a guide to which way a pairing moves, never as lab data.

TNT2 Pro Plus 17L (1.24) mains / Prime Natural Gut 16 crosses

Stiffness3rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss7th pct · 1 measured
Energy return93rd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential44th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite76th pct · 1 measured
String friction74th pct · 1 measured

Prime Natural Gut 16 mains / TNT2 Pro Plus 17L (1.24) crosses

Stiffness3rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss4th pct · 1 measured
Energy return95th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential42nd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite61st pct · 1 measured
String friction69th pct · 1 measured

Open this in the hybrid builder

Which goes dead first?

Estimated from tension loss, which is the only thing the database measures about ageing. This is when the bed stops playing the way you strung it, not when the string breaks.

TNT2 Pro Plus 17L (1.24)

~37 hours of play

Prime Natural Gut 16

~39 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gamma TNT2 Pro Plus 17L (1.24) Nylon17Lfind14918944.60.5050.110
Pacific Prime Natural Gut 16 Gut16find8514954.40.4530.103

Add a third string TNT2 Pro Plus 17L (1.24) in full Prime Natural Gut 16 in full