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Equipment & Gear => Archery Gear => Topic started by: superdown on April 19, 2013, 04:45:19 PM

Title: Impressive Gold tip photo
Post by: superdown on April 19, 2013, 04:45:19 PM: I just saw this on archery talk and thought i would share. This image shows a 225 lb guy standing on 3 of our arrows. We attempted to do this with our competitors arrows at the same spine and they blew into pieces. We took one of our sales reps that weighs 165 and he can stand on 2 and have it support him, 3 of the competitors blew up again. The arrows are the Pro Hunters 5575/400."
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Post by: darkarcher on April 19, 2013, 05:46:23 PM: Gold Tips are awesome. Never been let down.
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Post by: KFhunter on April 19, 2013, 05:59:16 PM: I'm having some doubts about my Easton Axis 400.

runied one on a pebble in the sand, I shot low at the target at 50 yards and skipped it in the sand into the target, it hit a small pebble and ruined the arrow at the end of the insert :o
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Post by: Fishaholic on April 19, 2013, 06:54:58 PM: thats cool but instead of breaking with the carbon explode?
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Post by: D-Rock425 on April 20, 2013, 08:05:39 AM: And this is why I've shot gold tip for years. Priced right and tough you axis guys all got sucked into the hipe
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Post by: coachcw on April 20, 2013, 07:31:25 PM: good arrow they just pull fricken hard !
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Post by: PolarBear on April 20, 2013, 07:44:33 PM: The only arrow I use and have for 15 or so years.
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Post by: Smossy on April 20, 2013, 07:47:53 PM: I like my gold-tip XT Hunters. They feel light, strong, and no crappy clear-coat on the shaft :chuckle:
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Post by: dreamingbig on April 22, 2013, 06:04:13 PM: Nothing but goldtip 7595s here for the past 8 years. I have still hunters for practice and pro hunters for crunch time!
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on April 22, 2013, 06:09:45 PM: Great arrows :chuckle:
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Post by: BULLBLASTER on April 22, 2013, 07:18:03 PM: one of you guys with gold tip arrows should give this a try and post the results!
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Post by: KFhunter on April 22, 2013, 07:25:01 PM: I don't see how this "test" is relevant though.
Title: Impressive Gold tip photo
Post by: jackelope on April 22, 2013, 07:25:47 PM: Quote from: BULLBLASTER on April 22, 2013, 07:18:03 PM
one of you guys with gold tip arrows should give this a try and post the results!

:yeah:
Title: Re: Impressive Gold tip photo
Post by: kentrek on April 22, 2013, 07:29:29 PM: Quote from: KFhunter on April 22, 2013, 07:25:01 PM
I don't see how this "test" is relevant though.

seems like sometimes when you put one in the boiler room the shoulder blade/muscles will come back an kind cut your arrow...if they can bend like this they might hold up better and help keep your arrow whole :dunno: cept ive had gold tips break tho soo who knows

Quote from: jackelope on April 22, 2013, 07:25:47 PM
Quote from: BULLBLASTER on April 22, 2013, 07:18:03 PM
one of you guys with gold tip arrows should give this a try and post the results!

:yeah:

kenetic pros are just a tad to expensive,sorry :chuckle:
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Post by: klikboom on April 22, 2013, 07:33:04 PM: Interesting, I was thinking my gold tips weren't so tough after two broke while taking down my first archery buck. It died mind you, but cost me some $.
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on April 22, 2013, 08:02:01 PM: I have always been an Easton kinda guy but I have used Goldtips the last 3 or 4 years ...They have both treated me good over the years ...Now as far as the guy standing on the arrows I have to call BS ...Hope they can defend themselves when someone brakes their neck :yike: :bdid:
Title: Re: Impressive Gold tip photo
Post by: KFhunter on April 22, 2013, 08:13:02 PM: Quote from: kentrek on April 22, 2013, 07:29:29 PM
Quote from: KFhunter on April 22, 2013, 07:25:01 PM
I don't see how this "test" is relevant though.

seems like sometimes when you put one in the boiler room the shoulder blade/muscles will come back an kind cut your arrow...if they can bend like this they might hold up better and help keep your arrow whole :dunno: cept ive had gold tips break tho soo who knows

Quote from: jackelope on April 22, 2013, 07:25:47 PM
Quote from: BULLBLASTER on April 22, 2013, 07:18:03 PM
one of you guys with gold tip arrows should give this a try and post the results!

:yeah:

kenetic pros are just a tad to expensive,sorry :chuckle:

Always figured the brush/trees broke em off
Title: Re: Impressive Gold tip photo
Post by: Sliverslinger on April 22, 2013, 08:18:56 PM: I used Gold Tip Pro hunters for a while. Two years ago I switched to GT Kinetic Pros. Both are awesome arrows!
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Post by: Jonathan_S on May 17, 2013, 11:21:30 AM: Quote from: Smossy on April 20, 2013, 07:47:53 PM
I like my gold-tip XT Hunters. They feel light, strong, and no crappy clear-coat on the shaft :chuckle:

Still have some left or are they in the bushes? :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: Skillet on May 17, 2013, 11:34:05 AM: Quote from: KFhunter on April 22, 2013, 07:25:01 PM
I don't see how this "test" is relevant though.

:yeah:

Marketing hype. If you're standing on your shafts while you're hunting, you're doing it wrong.
Title: Re: Impressive Gold tip photo
Post by: BULLBLASTER on May 17, 2013, 12:37:16 PM: I used to shoot gold tips and if I had any left I'd try it... I gave them all away tho. Someone has to have 3 old goldtips in their arrow bucket?
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Post by: returnofsid on June 28, 2013, 08:27:36 AM: Marketing hype indeed! It's similar to Buck knives, in the late 80s. They'd hammer knives into a tree and then use them to climb the tree. However, if you read the warranty, at the time, it explicitly explained that doing so would void the warranty...lol.