Received my Phantom yesterday. What a great CB. TenPoint really makes a quality crossbow. In my opinion it is head and shoulders above 95% of the other crossbows on the market.
I put mine together, mounted a Lumizone on it and went to shooting. It is quiet to my ears, extremely accurate and quite fast. The rigger is very nice crips light pull, but I new that from my other TenPoints. Once I got the scope zeroed in I shot five arrows into less than 3/4" group, robin hooding two arrows. I just had to prove to myself how accurate the bow is. Chronograph showed it doing 341FPS average, I gave the barrel my Teflon Fry Film treatment and shot 10 more arrows and averaged 348FPS. Not more than 2fps variation in all the shots. I am shooting Goldtip Laser II's with 2" Blazer vanes, 100gr tip.
Needless to say I am very pleased with this bow. This Phantom is a definite keeper. To me it is far, far better than an Excal, Parker , Horton or any others I own. Don't know how it stacks up to a DS but might decide to find out.
Forgot to mention the few minor irritations to the Phantom. The very noisy and ratting forearm safety. I think putting in that forearm saftey in is a result of somewbody sticking their thumb above the rail and getting it severely whacked . In any event, I'll bet money it's a liability issue that brought about the safety in the forearm. I removed barrel, disconnected it and removed the noisy linkage. MUch better, no more nosie from it. I also adjusted the tension screw on the rear safety to make it easier and get rid of the loud click.
Another minor item is the foot handle in front. It is bronze anodized metal, looks pretty but slippery. I wound some rubberized tape around it which took care of that minor irritation. Putting a piece of self adhesive felt or shrink tubing on the arrow retainer string eliminates the clicking.
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I put mine together, mounted a Lumizone on it and went to shooting. It is quiet to my ears, extremely accurate and quite fast. The rigger is very nice crips light pull, but I new that from my other TenPoints. Once I got the scope zeroed in I shot five arrows into less than 3/4" group, robin hooding two arrows. I just had to prove to myself how accurate the bow is. Chronograph showed it doing 341FPS average, I gave the barrel my Teflon Fry Film treatment and shot 10 more arrows and averaged 348FPS. Not more than 2fps variation in all the shots. I am shooting Goldtip Laser II's with 2" Blazer vanes, 100gr tip.
Needless to say I am very pleased with this bow. This Phantom is a definite keeper. To me it is far, far better than an Excal, Parker , Horton or any others I own. Don't know how it stacks up to a DS but might decide to find out.
Forgot to mention the few minor irritations to the Phantom. The very noisy and ratting forearm safety. I think putting in that forearm saftey in is a result of somewbody sticking their thumb above the rail and getting it severely whacked . In any event, I'll bet money it's a liability issue that brought about the safety in the forearm. I removed barrel, disconnected it and removed the noisy linkage. MUch better, no more nosie from it. I also adjusted the tension screw on the rear safety to make it easier and get rid of the loud click.
Another minor item is the foot handle in front. It is bronze anodized metal, looks pretty but slippery. I wound some rubberized tape around it which took care of that minor irritation. Putting a piece of self adhesive felt or shrink tubing on the arrow retainer string eliminates the clicking.
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