1st purchase: Barnett or Ten Point?
 

Hey Folks, newbie to this forum. Just received my crossbow permit, and looking to make a purchase. I've been doing the obligatory research, narrowed things down, and have best access to test fire and thus purchase either:

Ten Point Titan Extreme

or,

Barnett Ghost 350

Price on these in my area is the same.

Anyone with first hand experience with both of these? I know a lot of this is like anything else in the world - personal opinion. But if you have any strong reasons why I should or shouldn't buy, please let me know.

Thanks!

That decision is a n o brainer Definitely TenPoint, Barnett has lousy quality, lousy durability. lousy reliability, piss poor warranty and even worse customer service

Ten Point has exactly the opposite. 5 Stars in all the above mentioned catagories!

I have no experience with Barnett. I just had my 9 year old Ten Point Stealth X-2 serviced by Ten Point. The service is there and the quality is still there even for my 9 year old crossbow. If you are going to buy a bow to last a while I would highly recommend a Ten Point.

No choice there, got to go with Ten Point. Check out Excalibur also. Both have great support and warrenties.

I have owned both and I would highly recommend the ten point.

I shoot an Excalibur Vortex and love it. Simple maintemance on recurves. I have heard nothing but good things about TenPoints bows as well. I don't have any personal experience with Barnetts, but have always heard they tend to blow up and that there customer service is pretty sub-par as well. Go with the TenPoint or an Excalibur.

Ten Point! I have an titan extreme and it performs better than other bow in camp.

Those two brands should not be in the same sentence. Barnett= Kia. Ten point=Mercedes.
Buddy of mine had a Barnett blow up in his face. 4 stitches under his eye and 2 hours of a doctor pulling out fiberglass particles out of his face! Enough said!

Another vote for the Ten Point. I had one of their top of the line 2008 models. I bought it used. It was wicked fast, and drop dead accurate.

TENPOINT!!!!!

'nough said. ;)

Know nothing about 10 point but I have a Barnett C5. When it was 2 yrs old I had a problem with it and sent it back to Barnett. They sent me a brand new bow back in lest then 2 weeks from the time I mailed it. It was not an old leftover either, it had the new type trigger. That is not bad CS to me. In case you did not know Barnett was bought out by Wildgame Innovations and their CS and product quality is improving by leaps and bounds.

Another vote for TenPoint.....

Not to bust anyone's bubble here .... but obviously a cross bow is a rather complex machine compared to either a compound, recurve or stick bow. I shot one or the other of these for 40+ years.

Cross bow draw weights are in the 150-175 pound range. Limbs are short, and stiff. There is a tremendous accelaration of the bolt on release to bring it to 300+/- fps as it leaves the rail. The serving can take a beating due to friction against the rail, even a properly lubricated one. Many have rather complex triggers with built in anti-dry fire provisions. Some have tried to incorporate nearly fool proof safeties. All this is to say that there is a lot of stuff that can go wrong with any make.

I have no personal expereince with any other than Ten Point and Parker. My Ten Point was a top of the line 2008 vintage. The string lock/anti-dryfire mechanism that holds the string at full draw failed and the bow fired unexpectedly. I escaped any serious injury but suffered a nasty bruised thumb because the cocking yoke hit it as it launched out into the air ! I was informed that a pin failed. Ten Point was super about the fix and sent me a brand new set-up within 3 days. But because of this fauilure I lost confidence and sold it. The purchaser has had it for 3 years and has had no issuses with it.

I replaced the Ten Point with a Parker Tornado. I have had zero problems with mine but ..... one of my best hunting buddy's liked mine so much that he bought one. After only about 30 shots both limbs split along what appears to be a lamination surface. ER was in the process of cocking the bow when the limbs failed. Oddly enough, both failed identically as far as we could tell ... and best ER could tell both failed simultaneously. Parker's service folksdid not respond at all to ER's 2 e-mails and 2 phone calls. Bass Pro, where ER bought the set-up, was able to provide ER with a replacement from Parker. Took about 10 days.

So .... stuff happens I guess.