Mine sounded like that on the first swing. It's got about 30-40 cuts on it now. That sound is gone and it's more of a cracking sound now. It hits real good. Still several feet behind my 60-70 cut big cat and a little further behind my 500 cut Dudley. I think it's gonna be a great bat after it gets broke in. I didn't think my Dudley was ever gonna break in. Took around 350 cuts. For me, the bigcat and salvo were much hotter out of the wrapper than the Dudley.