I took all the junk stuff off my sons an replaced it. He loves it.

 

I Will replace the whisker biscuit immediately, not sure with what yet. There's a $10 hostage rest on Amazon that look better than the biscuit, might start with that.

What's your thoughts on the string? If you look at one of those pics you can see the twists in the bus cables but the string has a pretty long area of one color. Meaning hardly any twist
Should I twist it more?
Have you noticed the large rotation of the string when drawing?

 

I just bought one for me, I mean my kid. When it gets here I will take the string off and see how far I can back off the limbs.

 

That would be nice to know. Also I wonder what the string tension would be like with a higher draw weight. I could play with that I suppose.
The string on these seems almost loose when at rest. In the attached pic I am not exerting much side ways force and can easily tweak it. The draw weight is pretty low but like I said, so was the Atomic and there was plenty of tension on that.

 

I will keep an eye on this thread. If I learn anything relevant I will post. Hopefully others here will post more info.

 

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I put one of these on my Bear bow when my drop away failed. It's my back up bow now. Its more tunable and you wont have issues with the vanes passing through it. Accurate, no maintenance.

 

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I put one of these on my Bear bow when my drop away failed. It's my back up bow now. Its more tunable and you wont have issues with the vanes passing through it. Accurate, no maintenance.

That looks like a great budget option, I might just go with it, at least for the 13yo. This will be her first bow.

Was thinking a cheap drop away for the 11yo, he shoots well enough that he might notice a difference.

 

I got one for my 10yo (now 11) son last Christmas. He does decent with it but I feel like I could upgrade some parts and make it better.
I noticed the issue with the cable slide also the other day when he was shooting. It does come pretty close to sliding off. He’s set at about 22lbs for now.
Not a lot of twist to his string either.
It’s a pretty cool little bow though and he likes it!!

 

Sweet, glad to hear it. I know it probably sounds like I was bashing the bow a little but mostly being critical. My kids love them so far and I think they are a great price point for a bow ready to shoot.

 

I wouldn't even waste the money yet on a new rest, that groove holds the biscuit right where it should be, I wouldn't be concerned about the vanes.........the arrow is going through a biscuit, of course they are going to curl..........it's easy to bend the string / cable, because there is next to nothing for weight on it............string stop is a non issue.........that bow will shoot darts with a little bit of tuning with what you have..........

 

Thanks for the reassurance.
I don't think curling vanes is acceptable though. When I pull the arrow through there is definite resistance and I wouldn't want that much on my bow. I like to tinker with my bows and my kids bows so tunability is a large factor for me and that biscuit limits that imo.
I'm thinking the previous posted hostage has got to be a decent upgrade for $12. Sounds like a no brainer to me.
I was comparing the string tension to the Atomic at the same draw weight and there is definitely more tension at rest on the Atomic. Not a huge deal, but an observation worth noting. Same with the string stop. I guess I was kind of reviewing the bow and giving my thoughts for other potential buyers the think about mostly to help but also hoping to hear that others have found good results with them. Looking good so far!

 

My wife shoots one of these and has worked up in weight from 24lbs all the way to 41 lbs. The peep sight is a joke but after switching that out with a tie in with the tube, changing the whisker biscuit out with a $50 qad drop away and replacing the sight with a mbg she is very consistent and is a good bow to work on proper form and building strength. She will upgrade next year but will be hunting the Royale this deer and turkey season.

 

I'm looking at getting one of these for my son, my daughter is on the fence. Keep us posted with how you like them, but it seems like so far you're saying you'd buy them again, you just would plan on upgrading some stuff that you don't particularly like? Vanes curling from a whisker biscuit is the norm as far as I know so that one I anticipated already, but if you have any other issues I'd be interested in knowing what they are. Thanks for the post.

 

I do still recommend this bow. My 11yo son just did a 3d shoot with it and was hitting out to 35 yards at 22lbs, currently with all stock equipment.
I am still planning on doing a few things to it, will probably twist the string more and replace the rest.
But yes,for the price point I think it is definitely worth it.
However, I still say that if a diamond atomic will fit the child, it is the best option IMO. It only goes up to a 24in draw though.

 

Update:
My kids have been shooting the Royales a couple weeks now and are settling in so I had them shoot through paper to see how things look.
Both kids shot perfect bullets. No bad tears to fix at all. I was pretty sure I saw some arrow flight issues but that may be due to their form.
That's with all stock equipment. I did have them walk back tune when sighting them in so that may have tuned the center shot pretty well.
They are both shooting a little irregularly, with some fly aways but I attribute that to form as well as them just being kids and fairly new to the sport of course.
Got to say, I'm impressed

 

I know this is an older thread but there isnt much info about these on here. I just picked one up for my niece which arrived today. They definitely need some tuning out of the box. The cams were 3 or 4 twists out of time with each other and one cable had almost no twists in it. I just equalized the twists on the cables and then pulled a few twists out of the yoke to keep axle to axle within spec. The yoke cables were over-twisted for sure on one cable. The manual leaves a lot to be desired in relation to estimated draw length vs draw weight with the limbs out 12 turns. The book said 12 turns out at 22" draw length it would be between 16 and 20 lbs. it was nowhere near that amount. The string was so loose I could literally pull it off the cams by hand. I ended up adding 4 turns per limb to get it up to 19lbs. The biggest problem I had with setting it up was having to add a slight amount of cam lean to both cams to get the cables to stop making a clicking sound when coming to full draw. The angle of the cables vs the angle of the mods was causing the cable to be pulled over and then clicking when it slid into the groove on the module. I added a tiny bit of cam lean and that problem went away. I put some arrows through it today and was able to shoot 1 inch groups at 10 yards with the super short draw length and my 340 spine arrows which are way too stiff. I gonna pick up some 600 spine arrows tomorrow and plan on paper tuning it before I hand it over. All in all its not a bad little bow. Its super light which my niece will appreciate. She is really skinny and doesn't have a ton of upper body strength. Anyone else experience the clicking sound from the cables?

 

It's the same as any other yoke tuned bow but I'll give you my recommendations. The first thing i did was to set the twists in the cables about the same so they matched the twist ratio in the string. Then i did the same thing for the yokes. I adjusted cam lean so the cams were equal. I lay arrows on the back side of the cams and make sure the arrows intersect at the berger hole about 1.5 inches from the string. Then add or remove twists equally to the cables and yokes to get it in axle to axle. Once it was in spec, I cranked the weight up and put about 25 shots through it to settle the strings/cables. Then i checked timing and adjusted the cables until timing was exact. The flat spots on the back of the modules should touch the cables at the same time. Then i shot it again to settle the cables, and repeated the process until timing was good after 25 shots. I verified a2a again and adjusted cables equally and then shot it and verified timing. You may need to do this a bunch of times depending how far out of spec it is. Once i had timing and axle to axle where i wanted it, I set the rest so the arrow was parallel with the riser per the manual and at a 90 degree angle to the string and shot it through paper. I adjusted the yokes according to the left/right tear and adjusted the nock height for up and down. If the arrow is square to the string and timing is right, you shouldn't need to move the nock point much if at all. After it was all done i cranked the weight back up shot a bunch of arrows through it and checked timing one last time. Took me about 2 hours to get the initial setup perfect.

 

Wow this is great, thanks for the help!

 

Glad to see this thread get some use!
My experience was similar to dleach1407's except the two weren't too far out of spec. Timing needed adjusting and arrow squared with string and riser, although if I remember right you can't fully adjust the OEM rest.
one bow I twisted up the string to try to get the peep twist out so my son could shoot without the peep aligning rubber tube.
I got it so the rotation was the same and aligned when at full draw but couldn't get rid of rotation. Very frustrating for a brand new bow, strings are too cheap.
The kids shoot pretty well with just basic adjustments, you will need a bow press to make the string twists of course.

 

My 6 year old son has been shooting a Royale for 4 months now and it is a really impressive bow. I left it stock. 18” draw length 15-18 # range. He’s shooting victory VAP 800s and they are perfect.

 

The vaps are a good choice but I've switched to the 3dhv and feel like the kids will gain some distance from the lighter weight and the price for the v6's ($10/shaft) is very budget friendly!