Martin: It was my 2nd xbow, the first was a Whammo 80 lber that I mowed yards forever for, lol. The Commando was a big improvement over that, but still left alot of room for improvement. It wasn't that hard to cock, seems like it had a real short power stroke, something like 11-12", was deadly accurate to 20 yds, got my first Robin Hood w/ it. Some guy wrote an article in a back issue of HBM about refurbishing one of them. I never had a chrony in those days.