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Pacific Classic Natural Gut 16 vs Pacific Prime Gut Orange Bull 16 (1.30)

Prime Gut Orange Bull 16 (1.30) leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Prime Gut Orange Bull 16 (1.30) is 27 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Pacific

Classic Natural Gut 16

Gut · 16 ga

Pacific

Prime Gut Orange Bull 16 (1.30)

Gut · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
1002nd pct
740th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
156th pct
121st pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
97100th pct
97100th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
2.87th pct
3.111th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.42239th pct
0.46966th pct
Snapback lower = strings slide and snap back
0.14993rd pct
0.14993rd 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 Classic Natural Gut 16 at 52 lb

String Prime Gut Orange Bull 16 (1.30) at 70.0 lb 31.8 kg

Coming from Prime Gut Orange Bull 16 (1.30) at 52 lb

String Classic Natural Gut 16 at 38.6 lb 17.5 kg

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.

Classic Natural Gut 16 mains / Prime Gut Orange Bull 16 (1.30) crosses

Stiffness1st pct · 1 measured
Tension loss3rd pct · 1 measured
Energy return100th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential8th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite44th pct · 1 measured
Snapback93rd pct · 1 measured

Prime Gut Orange Bull 16 (1.30) mains / Classic Natural Gut 16 crosses

Stiffness1st pct · 1 measured
Tension loss1st pct · 1 measured
Energy return100th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential10th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite62nd pct · 1 measured
Snapback93rd 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.

Classic Natural Gut 16

~38 hours of play

Prime Gut Orange Bull 16 (1.30)

~40 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugeStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFSnap COF
Pacific Classic Natural Gut 16 Gut1610015972.80.4220.149
Pacific Prime Gut Orange Bull 16 (1.30) Gut167412973.10.4690.149

Add a third string Classic Natural Gut 16 in full Prime Gut Orange Bull 16 (1.30) in full