sanlidaDragon X9 Ready to Hunt Compound Bow Package for Adults, Archery Compound Bow and Arrow Set, 0-70 Lbs Draw Weight, No Bow Press Needed, Limited Life-time Warranty

I was in the market for a replacement for my older PSE compound bow, while not wanting to spend a great amount of money. After many hours of research and You-Tube vids., I chose the Salinda Dragon X9 bow. It's the newest updated version of the Dragon X8, which has the distinction of being the best selling bow sold by Amazon. It's far exceeded my expectations. It came via 2 day shipping in a factory sealed box that was very well packaged for protection. Upon opening and after inspection, I used the included allen wrenches to change the draw length and weight to my prefered settings. Easy and fast using the instruction booklet packaged with bow. Two You-Tube vids. with the X9 punched in search, also show detailed unpacking along with set-up and right thru shooting first arrows. The package comes with a good quality case and a dozen good quaility arrows and quick detach quiver. The rest of the accessories are pretty much standard quality for these bow packages. After a few practicing arrows, I was shooting groups as tight as I've ever been able to do. This with-out any super tuneing was very impressive. While selling for a budget price, this bow's build quality, materials and shootability are at a much higher level. Also important to mention are my dealings with the customer service team. I had a few questions before and after purchase and received over night replies at all times. I also received a replacement arrow rest via 2 day delivery, to deal with the included rest that has interference with shooting the included arrows. Not a problem with my 500 grain, 28 inch arrows though. Final thoughts are that the Salind X9 is the very option among the many available at anywhere near this price and even above.

Overall this is a very nice bow. With all the accessories that are included it's really a good buy.Pros: Great riser, good limbs with dampeners, decent sight, D-loop installed and nicely set-up, very easy to adjust Draw length and draw weight without bow-press.Cons: Arrows are weird and don't work with the included arrow rest. The 4" fletching jams into the rest. On the positive side the support center for Sanlida immediately responded and sent me 12 new arrows with shorter vanes (3") and they moved the vanes 1/2" closer to the nock. Great service! I was still able to use the 4" vanes by flipping the rest to the front of the riser.I had to modify the rest: the brushes were way to close to each other and had to be ground off on a belt sander, now the arrows glide nicely past the rest. I don't use the quiver, arm sling, the stand and I use my own palm-release. All in all the bow is well built and a good value.

The bow itself is great, it comes with everything ready to hunt. It is designed to be used for hunting despite can also be a great option target shooters.Pros:1. High quality bow, comes with the string attached so you don't need a bow press and contains all the basic attachments to use2. Easy to tune, comes with a manual and there is many videos in YouTube to teach you how to tune. The only hard part is adjusting the draw length. Explained later. Most part you can tune and adjust your bow by your own easily after some tutorial other than peep sight that you may need a bow press and don't have issues with being not serviceable as you can do everything yourself other than peep sight that is serviceable.3. Very affordable and very high value that is significantly cheaper compared to other brands products at similar quality4. Nice appearance5. Very smooth releaseCons:1. Arrows are not good, I suggest to get new ones as many user have experienced problems with it.2. In rare cases user reported problems with the manufacturing defects. I didn't experience that.3. The attachment are mid-low quality. If really need to improve accuracy you may need to upgrade them (mainly for experts, if you are beginner or intermediate shooting less than a year I suggest you focus more about improving on human errors rather than upgrading accessories). Since using the accessories that it comes with is still perfectly fine unless you are competing or an professional in target shooting, etc. Remember if you are competing, make sure to choose fixed pin because it don't comes with adjustable sight, stabilizers, and magnifiers like an target shooting compound does, unless you have upgraded the attached accessories.5. Some people might find hard to adjust the draw length. Compared to other bows is still much better but there are still room for improvements. To adjust the draw length you have to loosen the back screw of the cam, then unscrew and change the screw position based on numbered indicator to adjust your draw weight and screw it.6. There are pink coloring on screws not sure what those are after shooting for few days. But for now, it still works perfectly fine. (Probably it is corrosion since I leave it overnight at a very humid environment)