Twelve perfect throws is all it takes.

It sounds easy enough, but rolling a perfect game in bowling is something that doesn’t happen too often.

However for Dave Ring, 66, of Austin, it appeared like he bowled one on command recently. Exactly seven days after Dave’s son Dan Ring, 29, rolled his first ever perfect game in Ames, Iowa, Dave rolled his second career perfect game at the Dec. 21 Tuesday senior league at Echo Lanes.

“My son called me right after he threw his and he was so excited that he forgot to change his shoes,” Dave said. “(When I got mine) it was sort of like topping him, although his series was better. It was kind of neat.”

Dave went perfect in the first game of a three game series that saw him finish with a 697 and Dan was perfect in the third game of his 756 series.

Dan began to feel the pressure as a small crowd gathered around him during the stretch of his perfect game.

“I was throwing the ball pretty good all night, but the pressure was building with every single ball,” Dan said. “I also shot my first hole-in-one in golf this year and they’re both tough to get. You don’t really expect to get a hole in one. There’s a lot more pressure with a perfect game. I didn’t know if I’d ever get one.”

Dave rolled his first perfect game on his 64thbirthday and he had rolled a 299 in the past. He said that rolling a perfect game takes a great ammount of skill and a little luck.

“It’s very, very easy to leave a ball when you’re throwing very well,” he said. “The infrequency of 300 games is probably due to the corner pins left standing. It takes a lot of concentration. You have to repeat the shot over and over again and you can’t get tapped.”

Another Austin bowler who knows a thing or two about perfect games is Al Fimon, 68, who rolled his first sanctioned perfect game April 21 of 2010 to lead his men’s 65er team to a total pins championship in the roll-off.

Fimon, who bowled four non-sanctioned perfect games, said the difference between a score in the 290s and a 300 is a vast one. It’s much easier for a bowler to focus when the pressure of perfection is off.

“When the pressure’s off it makes a big difference,” Fimon said. “On my perfect game, I felt my knees shaking a little bit on the last ball but once I took my first step I was all right.”

Fimon has been bowling regularly since the Hormel Strike and he said he’s seen bowlers as old as 90 competing in the Senior League before.

“One day I came out here and said I’m going to bowl a couple of games,” Fimon said. “Now I don’t know what I’d do if I couldn’t bowl. As long as I can get up on an alley and throw the ball that direction, I’m going to bowl. For old guys, (me and Dave) do pretty good yet. But the kids turn the ball so hard and they’re a lot better.”