After the string broke on the first shot and I had to send my initial Cyclone back to the factory I got my replacement Carbon Black Bitch today. (Just three days from sending the first one back!!!) She is a sexy and sultry bitch. :dupe: First thing I did was count strands in the string and found it had 32 strands. That made me fell a whole lot more comfortable. The one that broke was only 24 strands and broke when I squeezed the trigger on the first arrow. It really came undone!
Tore into the trigger and noticed that Parker may have listened to me as all mating surfaces where polished to eliminate the part line and roughness of the cast surface. I finished polishing all contact surfaces to a mirror finish. Trigger is now silky smooth with a tad bit of free travel and then a smooth, crisp letoff of about 1lb or less; BEAUTIFUL. I also polished mating surfaces for the safety and it now works smooth and noiseless. The annoying click is gone.
Took the butt stock ff and put a 1' by 1&1/2inch piece of self adhesive felt on the top inside of the butt stock It is then hard to get back on to the tube because the fit is tight Once on the tube it slides with minimal resistance and very quiet. No more rattle!! Lock up nice and tight, Put my Leupold Gilmore Red Dot on it and went to shoot.
This bow is really quiet and super fast. Not to mention accurate. Average FPS with 20" Goldtip Laser II, 2" Blazer Vanes, 100gr field tip over 12 shots is 359FPS/. That's smoking!! Accuracy is damn near one hole. Can't shoot two arrow to the same spot or one gets wrecked. I only had time to shoot 30 arrows and only 15 at 20yds and 15 at 30yds. Same P.O.A and was only slight low at 30yds. What great performance.
I shot moon nocks and also flat nocks with no problem. Going to wring it out some more with nothing but flat nocks. To me they are inherently more accurate. Plus I don't have to keep arrows separated.
Yes there were a few things I had to tweak like the trigger , silencing the stock. putting adhesive felt on the arrow retention springy. But it was no more than tweaking any other compound. I'm not to crazy about how the rope cocker works and will lay with that a bit. The angle of the string is so steep that the hooks crowd the rail at the last couple of inches before lock up in the claw. I didn't have any roll over but you have to be careful to pull up and back when cocking.
I also do not like it that there is no front sling swivel unless you mount the quiver bracket. That is easily cured with a picticanny rail sling stud adaptor from Midway. The quiver mount is okay but it should be on top like the Moon/Wyvern mount.
Overall I am damn happy with the My Black Bitch. This is one helluva bow for the money!
More evaluation after I shoot more :ack2:
Tore into the trigger and noticed that Parker may have listened to me as all mating surfaces where polished to eliminate the part line and roughness of the cast surface. I finished polishing all contact surfaces to a mirror finish. Trigger is now silky smooth with a tad bit of free travel and then a smooth, crisp letoff of about 1lb or less; BEAUTIFUL. I also polished mating surfaces for the safety and it now works smooth and noiseless. The annoying click is gone.
Took the butt stock ff and put a 1' by 1&1/2inch piece of self adhesive felt on the top inside of the butt stock It is then hard to get back on to the tube because the fit is tight Once on the tube it slides with minimal resistance and very quiet. No more rattle!! Lock up nice and tight, Put my Leupold Gilmore Red Dot on it and went to shoot.
This bow is really quiet and super fast. Not to mention accurate. Average FPS with 20" Goldtip Laser II, 2" Blazer Vanes, 100gr field tip over 12 shots is 359FPS/. That's smoking!! Accuracy is damn near one hole. Can't shoot two arrow to the same spot or one gets wrecked. I only had time to shoot 30 arrows and only 15 at 20yds and 15 at 30yds. Same P.O.A and was only slight low at 30yds. What great performance.
I shot moon nocks and also flat nocks with no problem. Going to wring it out some more with nothing but flat nocks. To me they are inherently more accurate. Plus I don't have to keep arrows separated.
Yes there were a few things I had to tweak like the trigger , silencing the stock. putting adhesive felt on the arrow retention springy. But it was no more than tweaking any other compound. I'm not to crazy about how the rope cocker works and will lay with that a bit. The angle of the string is so steep that the hooks crowd the rail at the last couple of inches before lock up in the claw. I didn't have any roll over but you have to be careful to pull up and back when cocking.
I also do not like it that there is no front sling swivel unless you mount the quiver bracket. That is easily cured with a picticanny rail sling stud adaptor from Midway. The quiver mount is okay but it should be on top like the Moon/Wyvern mount.
Overall I am damn happy with the My Black Bitch. This is one helluva bow for the money!
More evaluation after I shoot more :ack2:
