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Gold Tip arrows - hunting shafts

Has anyone verified the straightness and weight tolerance of the hunting shafts?

Verified as in questioning the design engineers and quality control process?

Just curious what your results were, I am interested in trying some out.

I have shot Gold Tips with my compound and recurve for 20 years and found them to be quality shafts. I just trust the company, ie, weight and straightness.

Guess I've never weighed each shaft, but they have performed well.

I've shot GTs on and off for 30 years, only had a problem once. A doz. Expedition hunters (I normally shot XT hunter or pros) that flew down right crazy. These had weight and straightness tolerance within their advertised specs, but spine arrow-to-arrow was way off. Without writing a book about tests, experiments and contact w/GT service, in the end I think it was just one of those things: I got a bad bunch, that's all. . Happens with bows, cars, carrots, shoes. I've switched to Easton nanos and axis since, but I'd go back to GT no problem. But I will say this: I've never, never, never had a problem with anything Easton. But maybe someday I will, right?

I've been using the Platinum Pierce shafts! They have high tolerances spec wise. Great shafts

I've shot them for close to 15 years now. Found 1 shaft in all that time not in tolerance. Use mostly the 3d pros and they are as straight as they claim.

They have been around for awhile, and I never had a problem.

"The Gold Tip story started in 1989, when Marvin Carlston and Vaughn Anderson opened a small garage-based broadhead manufacturing business. About a year later, Marvin and Vaughn developed the world's first carbon graphite shaft arrow. "

Just started shooting the Hunter XT's a year or two ago. Consistent weight and straightness so far.

Ermine, did you check them on the RAM as well? Have you ever checked the Pro hunter/ XT hunters on the RAM?

I have shot some form of GT shafts for at least 17 years. I have my own spine tester as well. The tolerances have always been pretty much on the money. Straightness is hard to judge but I would say all have been better then .006. I am trying the new Bloodlines this year as I needed a light gpi. yet .400 spine as I had to go down in poundage and wanted to keep my arrow weight to match the same gpp. So far I am impressed with them as well. Scooby

There is a pretty renown bow tuner on another site I visit that was not impressed with the spine consistence of the pierce arrows. Injexions were better per his tests.

RogBOw- yea I use a ram spine tester. The arrows I have I found to be within the spec (spine) .002. With most being .001. I have found the Pierce to be higher in tolerance than the carbon injections. I also like the outsert and ballistic collar. Not shooting deep 6 is nice for head availability!

From what I heard is the first few batches of the Pierce shafts had some inconsistencies. But they corrected the problem. The Carbon injections tolerances have gone down .003 now.

I've shot GT XT's for some time now. After doing ALOT of reading about arrows on AT, I decided to give the GT Pro's a try last year. I bought a dozen through my shop and after the usual cutting from both ends, etc....... I took them home to built them. It wasnt until after I squared the ends, squared the face of the insert and installed a BH that I noticed a problem. Out of the dozen, 3 or 4 had a noticeable wobble to them. Couldn't get a BH to spin straight whatsoever. You could see it plain as day on the arrow spinner. My shop replaced the arrows and they weren't much better, so I contacted GT directly, sent them in and they replaced them, with better shafts. For the $$, I was disappointed. I never had that issue when buying their standard XT shafts. I will most likely continue to buy them, but think I'll stick with the XT's next time I need arrows. I bought 15 Pro's from a guy who had hand picked them from 3 dozen shafts and they all spun true, so I'm good to go for awhile.

GT Has been hit or miss for in the past and Recently I have had issues. The last two dozen velocity pros I had were terrible. I had Noticeable wobble in the bare shafts prior to cutting them and out of the two dozen less then half were exceptable to me. I was able to exchange the defected shafts and received a new dozen ultra light pros as replacement, which have been fine. However these will most likely be the last batch of GT for.

James, I pretty much always cut from both ends. However these were horrendous and it was a baseline that I wouldn't start my arrow build from. Comparing them to ACC's and BEA Rampages and Spartans that I also recently built there wasn't any comparison. That said the ultra lights that they replaced them with were just fine. Regardless I hope it was just an isolated incident of poor quality control because they sucked.

I have used nothing else for more than a decade. Hunter XTs. A number of years ago, after cutting to length I weighed the shafts. I was very happy with the consistency. I also weighed after glueing veins and inserts to see my consistency, which was not as good as the cut raw shafts. I do not remember the actual results, but I was convinced to stay with them. I used an electronic digital scale.

Not exactly what you asked for but hope that helps.

Of the dozen XT's I bought 4 are what I consider straight enough for big game hunting, even after cutting off the crooked end. The other 8 are probably good for practice, maybe small game. Think I might stick with the Pro's next time.

I've been happy with XT's. I'd shot some of the cheaper GT varieties and been very disappointed, but I found a set of 2 dozen XT's in a pawn shop cut to my length complete with innerloc broadheads for 15 bucks. I figured I'd just get them so I could have the heads for my kids to shoot . those arrows were fantastic, so I've stayed with them ever since.

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