Adam took a proper look at the Shot Michael Smith “Bully Boy” dartboard cabinet set, hauling the hefty box into the darts room to see if it lives up to the World Champion branding. With the set sold as a complete home darts centre, he focused on three main things: how sturdy the cabinet feels on the wall, what the included board and darts are actually like in use, and whether the sound and stability are good enough for regular practice rather than just the occasional knockabout.
On the outside, the cabinet is all about the Bully Boy branding: a solid black-laminate wooden case with a full-front Michael Smith graphic – arms folded, bull logo, and “World Champion” text – printed sharply across both doors. The print quality is smooth rather than raised, so it’s not going to catch or peel easily, and it’s properly centred, which helps if you’re fussy about things lining up. Sturdy construction and spring-loaded brass hinges give the doors a reassuring weight, and once it’s fixed up it feels more like a piece of wall furniture than a flimsy budget surround.
Open it up and the set is ready to play straight away. You get twin wipe-clean scoreboards on the inside of the doors – one with standard 301/501/701 scoring, the other laid out for Cricket – plus a marker pen in the box so you’re not hunting round for a biro. In the middle sits the Bully Boy tournament-size bristle dartboard, made from self-healing sisal with a removable number ring, so you can rotate it to spread the wear and extend its life. The wiring uses staples on the spider but a staple-free bullseye to cut down bounce-outs where it matters most. Two full sets of steel-tip brass darts are included, which are perfectly fine to get you started or to hand to guests for a quick game.
Mounting is pretty straightforward: you get wall fixings in the box, and the cabinet can either hang from the eyelets on top or be screwed more permanently through the back panel, which helps take the weight and keeps everything solid. Once it’s up, the wooden carcass acts as a bit of sound damping as well as hiding the board when it’s not in use – Adam noted that there was no nasty echo or rattling when the darts hit, just a solid, muted thud that’s much more home-friendly.
In short, the Shot Michael Smith Bully Boy dartboard cabinet set is a proper all-in-one home setup: a sturdy, good-looking cabinet with sharp Bully Boy artwork, a tournament-size sisal board with removable number ring and staple-free bull, plus two sets of darts, twin scoreboards and a marker – everything you need to get playing as soon as it’s on the wall.
