Hey guys I just picked up a dozen Gold Tip Traditional 500 shafts for my recurve. Upon looking them over and weighing them they came out to 8.9gpi which is a touch over their advertised 8.6gpi. Ok so 0.3gpi not a huge difference. The weird thing is I shoot their Traditional XT shaft in 600 spine for a couple of my longbows. The XT shaft is the same as the regular just straighter apparently. My 600 XT shafts are advertised at 7.8gpi but they actually scale out at 8.5gpi. Now the 0.7gpi difference in the XT is quite a bit. I’m curious if this is common with the XT shaft being heavier than advertised. Is there anyone else who has observed this gpi deffernce with the Gold Tip shafts? Who has a Traditional XT 500 shaft that they can weigh to check the actual gpi against advertised gpi? I know we are kind of splitting hairs here, it would only be a total of around 20gr difference in total arrow weight but I’m curious none the less.

I weigh them and the dozen shafts will all be within a few grains of each other. I have never divided by the length to get the gpi.

I do like PECO, I just check overall, not worried about GPI. Write or call Gold Tip, they will help you, good people.

Did you weight them with the nocks and inserts installed?

No nock or insert, just a completely bare shaft. The scale is accurate to within 2gr. I’m not really worried about the gpi. I’m really just curious if it’s isolated to the two dozen shafts I have or if anyone else has seen the same thing.

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