I didn't have any problems with mine at first, it really liked straighter angles, or getting in really deep. Otherwise on a house shot at like 3rd or 4th arrow . . the track for most people these days . . I had to have the right set of circumstances. Wasn't that I didn't end up liking it, it was that I had something better in whatever look I was going for most of the time, and what the X is really good at never really happened much for me. It's great in super garbage time when you need length and boom on REALLY toasty lanes, but I just never see that, most of the time I just ended up grabbing it at the bottom trying to get it to start up earlier because I was using it on wetter conditions than it was built for.