TenPoint Titan X De-Cock Crossbow Review

At heart, I’m a simple guy. When it comes to hunting equipment, I like stuff to be as simple and easy to use as possible. But it must also be reliable — never failing to do what it was designed to do. And I demand value for my money.

That’s the TenPoint Titan X De-Cock crossbow in a nutshell. It will do anything and everything a hunting crossbow should do, at a price point that’s well below that of most of the flagship crossbows on today’s market.

Setting It Up

The Titan X De-Cock package comes complete with everything you need to get started, including the ACUdraw De-Cock cocking and de-cocking system, 4X Pro-View 400 lighted scope, installed Picatinny rail, three Pro Elite 400 carbon arrows with 100-grain field points, quiver, quiver mounting bracket, string dampening system, foot stirrup and a mini-tube of rail lube. Add a target, and you’re ready to start shooting.

After making sure every screw and bolt were securely in place — they were — it was time to mount the scope. I used a small level to make sure my bow was perfectly level when secured in a gun vise, then mounted the scope and used another level to make sure it was perfectly level as well. This is very important to keep the arrow from impacting left or right, especially when shooting at distance.

Measuring 33-inches in length and 13-inches axle-to-axle (which narrows down to about 9.75 inches when cocked), it is compact enough to maneuver easily in a treestand or ground blind. At 7.3 pounds gross weight, it’s neither overly light nor overly heavy. The key here is the fact that this weight is balanced, not too far out front as is the case with some other crossbows I shot this year. That helps you get settled in on the target whether you’re shooting off your shooting sticks or offhand. It also features some upgrades you normally won’t find on crossbows at this price point, including a metal barrel that eliminates barrel flex and reduces friction, and rubber touch points on the stock, cheek piece, butt plate and pistol grip. The forward draw style split limbs have a 12.75-inch power stroke.

Ten Point limbs Robb — The Titan X De-Cock features forward draw-style split limbs that have a 12.75-inch power stroke.

Dialing It In

I do my crossbow practice shooting from a chair with the bow resting on a tripod and secured in a BOG Death Grip. After a couple of arrows to get the scope adjusted at 20 yards, I began to test for accuracy. It took me a bit of time to get used to the trigger. The patented D1 trigger is a two-stage, zero-creep design that breaks clean — not something I can say about some others I’ve shot this year — and is advertised to break at 3.5 pounds. I’m used to a lighter trigger break point (on bolt-action rifles) and it felt a bit heavier to me, so it took some getting used to. That said, it didn’t take long before I was shooting solid groups at 20-60 yards, both with 100-grain field points and matching 100-grain practice broadheads. In fact, I had to not shoot multiple arrows at the same target spot for fear of stacking them. The bow also has a Dry-Fire-Prohibitor built into the trigger system, another important feature.

Robb Ten Point trigger — The patented D1 trigger is a two-stage, zero-creep design that breaks clean, and is advertised to break at 3.5 pounds.

Robb accuracy Ten Point — The Pro Elite 400 arrows shot from the Titan X De-Cock proved extremely accurate. These two were shot at 50 yards.

Cocking the bow is simply a matter of taking some tension off the retractable sled, then running it down to the bowstring, taking up a little slack, then cranking it back until the bow automatically engages the safety. Turn the crank handle in reverse a couple of cranks to take the tension off the sled, lift it up and over the scope, place it in its storage port, and finger tighten the crank to keep it from rattling about. You then store the crank handle onto a cool feature found on the quiver bracket, where it’s out of the way yet quick and easy to retrieve when needed.

The ACUdraw De-Cock System

One of the most important features of this product for me is the ACUdraw De-Cock system. With the Titan X, you can cock the bow and safely de-cock it using the built-in crank system. That is a critical feature for hunters who climb up and down trees, get in and out of ground blinds, and those of us who simply do not want to have to discharge an arrow into a target at the end of a stand sit. Because of a recent shoulder replacement surgery, I cannot physically use a rope cocking or de-cocking system, and I found the ACUdraw system simple and safe to use.

Crank storage Robb — The crank handle is stored on a cool feature found on the quiver bracket, where it’s out of the way yet quick and easy to retrieve when needed.

Decock Ten Point Robb — One of the most important features of this product is the ACUdraw De-Cock system, which allows you to cock the bow and safely de-cock it using the built-in crank system.

Robb Ten Point safety — The safety and de-cock button are easy to access. The safety automatically engages when the bow is drawn back to the proper length.

The 4X Pro-View 400 Scope

The 4X Pro-View 400 is an illuminated scope with both red and green illuminated settings for low-light conditions powered by a single 2032 battery, or black aiming points pre-set at 10-yard increments from 20 to 70 yards when shooting 410-grain arrows at the bow’s advertised 400 fps. While this is admittedly not the top crossbow scope on the market today — you can always upgrade to a rangefinding scope or one with premium glass if you want — I didn’t feel like this scope adversely affected my shooting on the range. It has dot aiming points for 20, 30 and 40 yards, and small + aiming points for 50, 60 and 70 yards, and both the red and green illuminated lights are helpful in low-light situations. The focus ring has a large adjustment range, and I marked mine with a white Sharpie so I can keep it where it needs to be for my eyes. All in all, it’s a great value at the price point of this crossbow package.

Robb Ten Spoint scope — The focus ring of the 4X Pro-View 400 illuminated scope has a large adjustment range, and the author marked his with a white Sharpie so it could easily be kept where needed for perfect focus.

Pro Elite 400 Arrows

TenPoint recommends shooting its 20-inch Pro Elite carbon arrows with the Titan X De-Cock crossbow. These arrows are inspected to within .001-inch for straightness, and each package of three arrows is matched to weigh within 1 grain per arrow. Advertised to weigh 410 grains with a 100-grain broadhead or field point, my arrows weighed in at 403 grains, +/- 1 grain, on my electronic grain scale. The patented Alpha-Nock HP features a deep bowstring groove and elongated ears that wrap snugly around the bowstring, resulting in the kind of straight nock travel necessary for consistent downrange accuracy. Also available are the same arrows with an Alpha-Blaze Lighted Nock. I shot both styles on the range out to 60 yards, and found they essentially impacted in the same place. The arrows also feature Q2i Fusion X-II 3.0-inch vanes, a 58-grain aluminum insert. MSRP is $99.99/6-pack with the standard nock, or $99.99 for a 3-pack with the lighted nock.

Let’s Go Hunting!

In late August 2026 I travelled to Wyoming to hunt pronghorn with my good friends Scott and Angie Denny, their son Keedin, and the crew at Table Mountain Outfitters (www.tablemountainoutfitters.com; 307-632-6352.) I’ve hunted with them off-and-on for decades for elk, whitetails black bears, and of course pronghorn. I’ve done this archery pronghorn hunt a half-dozen times down through the years, and it’s always the same — lots of quality, Pope & Young-class bucks to hunt from pre-scouted blinds set near a water source at reasonable shot distances by experienced guides who are highly skilled and extremely serious, yet lots of fun to hunt with.

After arriving I spent some time on the lodge’s excellent target range making sure my crossbow was dialed in. Then it was time to head afield.

This hunt is generally conducted by sitting in a ground blind over a pre-scouted water tank. The success rate here approaches 100 percent — and that’s for 50 or more hunters annually, an amazing track record. But this year my guide, TJ McCulloch, whom I’ve hunted with before and is a real stone-cold killer, decided to change it up and try to spot and stalk.

I’ve hunted pronghorn with archery gear using this technique before, and it is exceedingly difficult. But here, on leased ground with very limited hunting pressure, the animals are used to the constant truck traffic serving the hundreds of giant windmills dotting the landscape. So, you can drive around with little fear of spooking them.

To make a long story short, we cruised the ranch, spotted a good buck all by its lonesome calmly feeding along on a still early morning, and watched it feed into a shallow depression. TJ’s experience told him the animal would feed out the other side, so once the animal fed out of sight, we made a move and got set up. Sure enough, here he came, slowly feeding parallel to our position. I had a solid rest, and when he stopped to nibble on some sagebrush, TJ hit the rangefinder — exactly 50 yards — and the Pro Elite 400 with the Alpha-Nock HP tipped with a 100-grain Rage Hypodermic Trypan hit him right behind the front shoulder, then buried itself in the ground on the other side. He piled up in less than 100 yards.

Robb pronghorn with crossbow — The author and his Pope and Young-qualifying pronghorn taken on this hunt at 50 yards using the TenPoint Titan X De-Cock crossbow, Pro Elite 400 arrows, and Rage Trypan 100-grain broadhead.

The Bottom Line

The TenPoint Titan X De-Cock might not be the fastest crossbow on the market (at an advertised 400 fps with a 400-grain arrow, it’s not slow, either), but as I’ve always said, a slow hit beats a fast miss every time. It’s accurate, easy to load and unload, and the package comes with everything you need sans broadheads to get set up, dialed in, and hunting in short order. It’s also hard to overemphasize the importance of having a crossbow that’s both easy to load, as well as cock and de-cock when necessary, and this crossbow is all of that.

Also, this bow is extremely accurate. I couldn’t shoot arrows at the same spot on a target at distances out to 50 yards without fear of destroying one. I also found that it shot my broadhead to the same point of impact as my field points.

I added a couple of accessories to mine, including a sling (the stock is drilled to accept sling swivels), and a EZshoot Scope Bubble Level (www.ezshooting.com). It’s easy to mount to the Picatinny rail in front of the forward scope ring, and helps keep the crossbow level at the shot.

Ez shoot Robb — The author installed an EZshoot Scope Bubble Level, which helps to keep the bow level at the shot — important to keep arrows from drifting left or right.

Admittedly, the Titan X De-Cock is not the same as crossbows costing well north of $4K, with their space-age rangefinding scopes and arrow speeds of 500 fps-plus, or even those with MSRPs of two or three grand or more. But with a suggested MSRP of $849, this crossbow will do pretty much anything and everything the average, everyday hunter would want it to do. I’ll be packing mine into the woods often.

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Photos by Bob Robb