Gold Tip nock blowup

[German Dog]

Seena thread on the *********** about guys having their goldTip nocks breaking during the shot. sounds like its  the flourescent colored nocks and not hte solid colored nock.

Anyone have this problem before???

[South MS Bowhunter]

Yes, and it not just the Flourescents but also in solid colors like white (seems to be prone). Me and a friend Kirk were shooting last week and had a white and a flo grren blow on us one caused a semi dry fire  

[LongbowArchitect]

Yup, I've had one solid white GT nock blow up and cause a dry fire and my son experienced the same thing with one of his flourescent green GT nocks.  Both bows apparantly were not damaged but my confidence in GT is gone.

[German Dog]

See i've never had any problems with the solid white or yellow in the last 7 years.

Did you guys go with a different brand of nocks?

[Ringneck]

I have had quite a few break.  Mine are the fl. green ones but it sounds like others are bad as well. I ordered some Bohning nocks to replace them.

[LongbowArchitect]

We switched to Carbon Express nocks.  It's only been a couple of weeks so I'll report back if I have any problems with them.  Besides the two dry fires from the exploding GT nocks we also experienced MANY broken GT nocks when our arrows hit anything hard (rocks or solid branches).  Seems that the force of the impact is transmitted back to the nocks and breaks them off inside the shaft.  I guess that was a whole lot better than the impact force damaging my shafts.

[Glenn29]

Have had about 3 white ones break before I changed them all out.

[JimB]

I switch all mine out with Bohning Signature nocks.I won't shoot any GT nocks.

[huskyarcher]

Good, i thought i was the only one, i have a dozed GT "Nuge" arrows i had to replace all the nocks

[bkyrdshooter]

I had a FLO clear green one blow up on me last week. before that had had no problem with them at all. this particular arrow I had shot only about 30 times. I have since received 2 dozen blems from Big Jim and plan on replacing all those with Bohning sig nocks. I do like the arrows but it only takes once for me to change them out. At a local sporting goods store in my area. They were selling GT arrows and giving the buyers additional carbon express nocks to replace the GT nocks for this very reason. At least that is what the "bow tech" told me.

[PaddyMac]

I love GT shafts but not the nocks. I keep a deck screw by my target to remove the broken inserted stems. There is a little debris field of white plastic in front of my target. Never had one explode on the string though.    :eek:  

Anybody try Signature nocks?

[JimB]

I think I mentioned that above.I have used 6 or 7 dozen of them.

[LimBender]

Thanks guys, bought some Bohning nocks today to put on my new GT's.  After reading numerous threads like this, it seems like cheap insurance.

When shooting compound several years ago I had a whole dozen where the nocks were breaking.  They were all brittle - like exposed to extreme temps or something.  Changed nocks and never had a problem.  GT ought to fix this. It doesn't match their slogan "The Toughest Arrow You'll Ever Shoot."

[PaddyMac]

Oh, cool. Thanks Jim.

[AdAstraAiroh]

In a set of 12 new GT 55/75 Trads with black GT nocks shot out of a 58# longbow,4 nocks broke square off at the base of the arrow, and two others cracked one side off, all within the first twenty shots of each arrow. I replaced them with the original Easton Super Nocks (not the 3D model, as they are smaller and less substantial) and no breakage at all after thousands of shots. I am sure that the current GT nocks have a material or design issue.

Mark

[KEG]

Thanks for the info. I have had GTs for a few years without any problems. I am now making up some blems from Big Jim and will switch out the nocks.

[PaddyMac]

I was in such a rush to buy my 5575 blems from Big Jim I didn't check the nock color box and they arrived with flourescent orange instead of my standard white, so I have to buy new nocks anyhow. I'm conditioned to going through lots of nocks so I usually buy 100. Maybe I don't need to do that. So as I type this I'm trying to figure what else I need to justify the shipping...

[Don Armstrong]

I put the Easton CB bushings in the arrows and use the Easton G nock. The G nocks are VERY high quality. Don

[Bud B.]

White ones breaking for me. I'm waiting for KK to send me the Bohning's I ordered. It's been over a week now.......


I have written Gold Tip about my concerns.

customerservice@goldtip.com

[Rob W.]

Just ordered Bohnings. I have been putting this off for awhile.

Thanks for the post. Rob