ORIGINAL: bigcountry
ORIGINAL: LittleChief
I wasn't going to ask this, but I've gotta know. I was told Saturday by a shop owner that in reality, there was no difference in Gold Tip's Pro Hunters and XT Hunters other than the label. He said that Pro Hunters were "a waste of money" since they don't sort them. According to him, and I quote, "if they have an order of 1000 Pro Hunters, they but the gold Pro Hunter label on the first 1000 arrows out of the batch".This just doesn't sound like a business practice that I would expect out of one of the leaders in carbon arrows. Does this ring true or false to you?
I tend to believe it.I personally saw a certain proshop owner in MDunwrapped right before us brand new pack of goldtips pro shafts, and over half the arrows have wobble so bad, I wouldn't put a broadhead on.He not only did this once in front of me, but twice. And others on here saw it.
It's unfortunate, but I guess bad batches leak out though and Len must have gotten a couple at once. Hopefully he called up GT and took advantage of their open return policy though, they are great about this.
I can tell you out of the pro series arrows I have (I have owned probably 10+ dozen over the last 2 years) I have averaged 1-2 arrows per dozen that I would consider a cull arrow for practice only. For a pure carbon, I have found their tolerances pretty good.
Now their CAA's are simply outstanding.........I ordered 3x dozen of those now and got a bakers dozen in 2 of the packages. Out of those 38 arrows, every one of them spun acceptable for me in terms of use with broadheads, and only one was more than a full grain off weight wise. That's what I am hunting with this year..........CAA 350's.