<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>The fact that you've shot a perfectly good carbon arrow into a cement wall on more than ten occasions makes me <font color=blue>for</font id=blue> your safety in every example you gave us. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>
Did you have a grammatical lapse of reason or are you advocating my safety? Either way I appreciate the thought<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> Just for some background, I use to shoot Gold Tips into the cement wall at a Pro Shop I use to work at. We would shoot them into the wall then cut them off and spin test and then put another insert in them and shoot them again, to proove to customers how durable they were. There is nothing about flesh or bone that will make a Gold Tip splinter. Only in rare cases will they splinter at all and that is normally when they take a direct hit from another arrow. In those cases I have seen a splinter come off of the arrow there is no continued degredation of the splinter. I hit one arrow with another earlier this year and nocked a splinter out a couple of inches above the insert (the business end). I have shot that same arrow all year during practice and it has not splintered anymore than the original splinter. Your odds of splintering a Gold Tip on an animal are roughly equivalant to the odds of building a snow man in the bowls of hell!
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