MilDotMaster

Ok, I just got my new Gold Tip Ultra Light Pro 300 shafts in the mail today. I told you all that I would post back the results.I took them out of the box and weighed each one. I didn't do anything special to the shafts and I didn't even clean them. All I did was zero out my scale and made sure I was in a draft free room.

Listed below are the results:

1. 270.5
2. 270.6
3. 270.8
4. 270.8
5. 271.0
6. 271.0
7. 271.0
8. 271.1
9. 271.1
10.271.1
11. 271.4
12. 271.5

Looks like they camewell within limitsright at + or - .5 of a grain with a total spread of 1 grain. They still had 1 grain to spare. I plan on cutting 1 inch off the back and 1.5 inch off the front for a totalshaftlength of 29.5 inch and a total arrow length of 30 inches with inserts an nocks installed.

Dnk

I assume you will weight them after the cut and post the results? That would be interesting.

JOE PA

That is good news.

I've read absolutely TONS of positive comments about Gold Tips from many posters. I have no experience with them other than the half-dozen underspined ones (35/55) that came with one of my used bows that I gave to my son.

Jeff B., who used to be our resident arrow guy, weighing, spining, and measuring for straightness, had issues with them, which probably prevented me from getting them sooner. Hope you have good luck with them. I know you will give them a full workout!

BTW, how smooth is the finish on the Gold Tips?

gibblet

thanks mildot.

MilDotMaster

Sorry just got back in town. The finish is smooth for sure andI'm trying to figure out if the label on shaft is a very thin sticker or a painted on label. There is no lip to catch your finger nail on. Hope that helps describe how smooth they are. [&:]They should pull from target very easily.

I did some moreexterior "micing" and it appears the shafts range from .294 at the very tip next to cut edge and increase to .2965 on the remainder of shaftexterior diameter. 10 of the 12 shafts require .5 of an inch to be cut from nock end to bring them right up to .2965and 1 inch to be cutfrom tip insert end to bring exterior diameter up to .2965. 2 of the 12 shafts are reversed... meaning more needs to be cut from the nock endof shaft vs. tip insert end of shaft to bring them up to the .2965. Only reason to do this was if you wanted to have entire length of shaft diameter right at .2965. Not a big deal, just seems that maybe the shaft got the label reversed during manufacturing. We are splitting hairs here big time,so it's not a problem, just something I noticed. To make the 12 shafts all the same,I would have tocut more off the nock end than the front end on 2 of the 12. I don't want to do this because myarrow wraps willbe installed over the end of shaft label.

Gibblet have you noticed this yet? Do you live with it or just cut more off nock end? Tim at GT say hecuts fromboth endsas required to get the best straightness, but having your arrow wraps overlaping shaft label would look kind of silly.I'm by no means good enough to notice the performance change in doing this, just something to learn fromand do just for the sake of knowing you're doing your best to buildthat "perfect" arrow.

Rick James

I have also found the same results with the pro series gold tip arrows in at least the weight department. My pro 22's after fletching and cutting are all either 355 or 356 grains. The whole dozen weighed in perfect. With the 65 grain screw in I have in them, they are sooooo stiff I don't think spine tolerance even matters.........lol. They all spun excellent as well once I trimmed off the front and back, I never spun them though before trimming.

My XT hunters though are a different story. I did see 5-6 grain differences between these arrows. They were pretty straight, but then again I trimmed off front and back before checking. I probably won't use the green label shafts anymore.

My plans for this year are to buy another dozen pro 22's, and make 3 of them up for open stakes with mini blazers and 80 grain glue in points w/ the easton 2114 uni bushing and super g-nocks, and make the rest for the short stakes w/ 4" vanetec's, and the 65 grain screw ins. I will also be using the pro hunters I think for hunting this year.

gibblet

a little acetone will wipe that label right off, i know that. i don't like the label if i crest them, so i just wipe it off. people can just wonder what the heck kind of arrows i shoot. i bought the .003 ultra lights because i still experience some backtension boo-boos. i'm finding they are close to the 4 grain tolerance when finished, but i'll weigh all of them finished when i get around to it and pick the ones with the closest weights to compete with if i don't break them all.

MilDotMaster

Another update:

When I first weighed these 12 arrows they had a 1 grain spread on weight right out of the box (meaning plus or minus .5 of a grain). Well within limits. Just last night I cut 1 inch from nock end of all 12 arrows. I reweighed them all and now only have a .5 grain spread in weight (that’s plus or minus .25 of a grain for the dozen). Awesome! I have not cut from tip end yet because I’m waiting to get my G5 squaring tool in the mail today. I want to square the nock end before I measure and cut the tip end of arrows. This info has taught me the importance of cutting from both ends. I will report back when I complete the arrows.

gibblet

oh but cutting from both ends in unnecessary.

sorry len, just pokingfun. i know it shouldn't be necessary, but it is.

MilDotMaster

I just got my new 3-inch low profile SS vanes from VaneTec tonight. Just finished building my first set of Gold Tip Ultra Light Pro 300 arrows. I know this is probably ridiculous to some of you, but I took it as a small goal to get weight of all 12 arrows as close as possible. Listed below is the total weight of my 12 arrows.

405.3
405.5
405.5
405.6
405.6
405.6
405.7
405.7
405.8
405.9
405.9
406.0

As you can see there is only a .7 of a grain spread for the entire completed dozen. I would have been happy if they were all within 2 grains of each other, so I exceeded my expectation. What really helped me out in the end was weighing all tips and placing them in order from lightest to heaviest. I then did the same with the fletched arrow shafts and installed the heaviest tips to the lightest shafts and visa versa. After the glue dries on vanes, I look forward to shooting them. I’m guessing these babies will be flying out of my bow at 295 fps. I’ll have to run them through the chronograph in a few days to get the exact numbers.