BALLISTABAT Reverse Draw Compound Mini Crossbow - Crossbow for Hunting, Fishing and Target - Fast 340 fps, Powerful 150lbs, Lightweight 3lbs

Best beginner friendly crossbow make sure you buy extra strings and the tool for changing the strings novices will dry fire and explode the strings even though you tell them not too the crossbow is very durable and well built to survive misuse by people just learning how to use a crossbow. I highly recommend it as a 1st crossbow because all the things it survived but it is still accurate and works well even with bad operators

Some online claims can be a little questionable, but this company delivers. Assembly was very simple, requiring only a few allen head screws (they provide an appropriate wrench). My big concern was the strength required to cock the crossbow. Once again they told the truth. I could easily pull the draw. My wife needed to place the crossbow nose down and place her foot on the fishing reel bracket in order to pull it, but she did it easily using that method. The six bolts (arrows) provided are target practice only, but hunting bolts are available. The speed is astounding! It is almost as fast as my full size crossbow. The drawbacks are 1.) the price of the extra bolts - $40 for 6 bolts and 2.) you need to buy the initial wax for the strings and bolt carrier as none is provided. Neither are significant drawbacks.TAKE SERIOUSLY THEIR WARNING AND DO NOT FIRE THE CROSSBOW WITHOUT A BOLT.

bow arrived on time and in good condition from the vendor. need to fit a red-dot to the crossbow to make aiming easier as there are no ironsights.

Giving it a 4 star instead of a 5 because this thing eats cables. I haven’t gotten more than 50 shots out of a cable even with string wax and lubricating the rail before every plinking session. So like another gentleman on here said. When you buy this thing go ahead and grab the cable replacement tool and extra set of cables($120🤦‍♂️). Otherwise this thing is wonderful. Easy to cock(I’m a former infantry Marine- so might be hard for other to cock at 50lbs), super accurate, and hell of a good time to shoot. I just wish the replacement cables weren’t $60 a piece, or atleast lasted up to 500 shots like Ballista claims. There’s absolutely no way it’ll last that long. I’m on my third cable🤷‍♂️ but I would absolutely recommend this thing to anyway looking for an end of times goat. It’s my squirrel sniper; but with the larger hunting bolts you could definitely take down large game. If you’re even debating on buying it? Do it you won’t be disappointed other than the cable life.

Very good quality. Powerful

Missing front bottom bracket. String is used and looks like it has been used and needs replaced . Plastic hole on pistol grip is already cracked. 3 practice bolts are missing. The 2 wrenches are missing

Great having the magazineGot for target practice andneed be for home defense

I really want to like this so bad because of simple caulking style without using a string! I've owned it for 2 days now and finally got to dial in the scope and got it centered about a dozen or so shots in. Cable already loosen up, and I know not to dry fire as this is my 2nd kind of crossbow. Did I get a dud? I don't want to return as its maybe a bad cable, but I don't want to buy another 1 after just a dozen shots, going to think this one out.Edit: 3rd day cable snapped, will be returning. I did some research and saw that this is common, maybe the way they engineered the cams? I'm not one to to give up easily, I even tried to settle to buy new cables and not fuss with a return. It's $40 and I've shot it only about 13-14 times. Kind of frustrated tbh.