TenPoint is the highest-volume brand in this project's entire keyword export. "Tenpoint crossbows" and "ten point crossbow" each pull 9,900 monthly searches, with "tenpoint crossbow" adding another 5,400. That's 25,200 combined monthly searches for a brand we don't currently have any way to send you to buy from, neither of our two confirmed merchants, CenterPoint Archery or Ravin Crossbows, carries TenPoint products. So this page is exactly what it looks like: real, sourced information about the brand and its current lineup, with nothing to sell you.
Who Makes TenPoint Crossbows
TenPoint's story starts in 1994, when Rick Bednar, whose parents ran Portage Archery Center in Suffield, Ohio, and whose father Bill Bednar is an Archery Hall of Fame member, founded Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc. after leaving Horton Manufacturing, the crossbow company he'd previously helped grow from nothing into a $4.5 million business. Horton sued almost immediately, and the dispute limited Hunter's operating capital for years. By the end of 1998 the two sides reached an out-of-court settlement: Horton received no financial compensation, but Hunter's agreed to retire its own name and start selling under a new one, TenPoint Crossbow Technologies, beginning in 2000. Bednar has said the name "ten" was meant to signal a "perfect ten" level of quality, a callback to the company's original slogan, "the mark of perfection".
That rebrand turned out to matter. Over TenPoint's history it has secured more than 95 U.S. patents and two Canadian patents, starting with 1995's VibraCush sound-dampening system and Dry-Fire-Inhibitor, followed a year later by the ACUdraw gear-assisted cocking device. In 2010 the company launched a second, value-priced sister brand, Wicked Ridge Crossbows, to compete further down the price ladder without diluting the TenPoint name. The company is headquartered at 1325 Waterloo Road in Mogadore, Ohio, and both TenPoint's own history page and the 2003 wave of state-by-state crossbow-hunting legalizations it helped push for are part of why the brand carries the recognition its search volume reflects.
TenPoint began in 1994 as Hunter's Manufacturing, renamed itself TenPoint Crossbow Technologies in 2000 after a settlement with Horton, and now holds over 95 U.S. patents.
The Real 2026 Lineup
TenPoint's own site sits behind a bot-detection challenge page that blocked repeated automated fetch attempts during this research, both through a standard browser-header request and a direct curl with a real desktop user agent, so we couldn't pull the full current spec sheet directly from tenpointcrossbows.com. What we can confirm, from TenPoint's own 2026 product announcement covered by Bowhunter magazine, is the brand's newest "Ultra" series, launched for the 2026 season across four models :
| Model | Speed | Weight | Length | Width (cocked) | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TX Ultra 26.5 | 410 FPS (400-grain bolt) | 7.7 lbs | 26.5" | 7" | $1,999.99 |
| TX Ultra 29.5 | 460 FPS (400-grain bolt) | 8 lbs | 29.5" | 6.5" | $2,499.99 |
| TRX Ultra (reverse-draw) | 515 FPS | 8.4 lbs | 29.5" | 6" | $3,499.99 |
| Turbo X Vision | 415 FPS | 6.8 lbs | 33.25" | 9.5" | $1,999.99 |
All three of the non-Vision Ultra models share TenPoint's Twin-Riser Technology, a TriggerTech-built trigger, and an ambidextrous thumb safety, and TenPoint markets them as capable of 3-inch groups at 100 yards. The TRX Ultra is the standout on paper: at a claimed 515 FPS it's positioned by TenPoint as the fastest crossbow currently sold, built on a reverse-draw riser layout with a 16.25-inch power stroke. The Turbo X Vision is a different kind of flagship, a lightweight 6.8-pound crossbow built around a scope with built-in video recording and rangefinding.
TenPoint's keyword volume is also tied to older, still-referenced model names, Venom X, Nitro 505, TRX 515, and Stealth 450 among them, that appear across TenPoint's product-manual archive and third-party retailer listings, but we could not independently confirm their current specs or pricing given the site access issue above. If you're comparing those specific models, treat any numbers you find elsewhere as needing a direct check against TenPoint's own product page before you buy.
TenPoint's 2026 Ultra lineup tops out at a claimed 515 FPS (TRX Ultra, $3,499.99) and starts at $1,999.99 for the TX Ultra 26.5 or Turbo X Vision.
Why There's No TenPoint CTA on This Page
Both of the merchants confirmed for this project, CenterPoint Archery and Ravin Crossbows, sell only their own house-brand crossbows, not TenPoint's. That's not a gap we're planning to paper over: rather than link you to a generic search results page or an unrelated retailer we haven't vetted, we're being upfront that we don't currently have a real, working affiliate relationship that covers TenPoint. If that changes, this page will be updated with a real recommendation and a real link, the same standard we hold every product page on this site to.
In the meantime, if TenPoint is genuinely on your shortlist, our buying guide walks through the same speed, weight, and draw-weight tradeoffs that separate a TX Ultra 26.5 from a TRX Ultra, so you can apply the same evaluation criteria to whichever retailer you end up buying from.
Neither CenterPoint Archery nor Ravin Crossbows carries TenPoint products, so this page links out to TenPoint's own real specs rather than to a purchase page.
FAQ
Is TenPoint the same company as Horton crossbows?
No, but they're historically connected. TenPoint's founder, Rick Bednar, previously ran Horton Manufacturing before leaving to start his own company in 1994, which Horton then sued, a dispute settled in 1998 with Hunter's Manufacturing (TenPoint's original name) agreeing to retire that name in favor of TenPoint Crossbow Technologies.
What's TenPoint's fastest crossbow?
Based on TenPoint's own 2026 announcement, the TRX Ultra is the brand's fastest current model at a claimed 515 FPS, built on a reverse-draw design. We could not confirm whether any older model in TenPoint's lineup exceeds that figure, since the brand's own site blocked our direct research access.
Can I buy a TenPoint crossbow through this site?
Not right now. Neither of our confirmed merchants, CenterPoint Archery or Ravin Crossbows, sells TenPoint products, so we don't have a real affiliate link to offer.
Does TenPoint make anything other than crossbows?
Yes. TenPoint also owns Wicked Ridge Crossbows, a separate, value-priced crossbow brand it launched in 2010 to compete at a lower price point without changing the TenPoint name itself.
Sources
- [S001] Deer & Deer Hunting : "TenPoint Celebrates 30 Years of Crossbow Innovation", (accessed 2026-09-09)
- [S002] Bowhunter magazine : "TenPoint Launches 2026 Crossbow Lineup Featuring New 'Ultra' Models", (accessed 2026-09-09)
- [S003] LeadIQ : TenPoint Crossbow Technologies company profile (headquarters address), (accessed 2026-09-09)
- [S004] dataset/site-architecture.json (this project, BRD-010 entry, real SEMrush-derived keyword evidence)
- [S005] dataset/merchants/centerpoint-archery/merchant.json and dataset/merchants/ravin-crossbows/merchant.json (this project : confirms neither merchant's real catalogue includes TenPoint products)
- Note: direct fetch attempts against tenpointcrossbows.com (both a standard WebFetch request and a curl request with a real desktop browser user-agent) returned a Cloudflare bot-detection challenge page ("Just a moment...") rather than real page content, on 2026-09-09.