From: GF
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Date: 24-Apr-17 |
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Looks like Tributes and Jazz are the same arrow except for color; both have a nock taper, correct? Are these really junky?
Difference between Platinum and Camo Hunter looks like sizes skew lower for platinum and higher for camo; anything else? Uni-bushings for both...
Game-Getters - not much info on shaft materials or tolerances, but they come with "composite" uni-bushings in sizes that a carbon-shooter would understand. And they're cheap.
And Legacy shafts are what? Same as Camo Hunters but with a nock taper and slick graphics? And not too many sizes to choose from.
Any real advantages to uni-nocks vs. tapers? Tapers are harder to Robin-Hood.... but not impossible. ;)
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From: strshotx
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Date: 24-Apr-17 |
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Uni-nocks vs swaged taper,I have Robin Hooded tapers and have damaged the taper end.Robin Hooded a couple of uni-bushing arrows and only damaged the nock,pull it out and replace.The uni-bushing nock end I think really strengthens the nock end of an aluminum arrow.I myself prefer a uni-bushing,I have converted my Legacy arrows to a uni-bushing.
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From: Scooby-doo
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Date: 24-Apr-17 |
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The aluminum in the tributes and jazz is no where near as hard as in the platinum or gamegetters. If you can find some old grand slam shafts even better. Uni bushing is the way to go in my opinion. Shawn
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From: Floxter
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Date: 24-Apr-17 |
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Unibushings have the advantage that you can start with large throat G nocks and as your serving wears you can switch to small throat G nocks and get double to use out of the serving before having to replace it. Unibushings also allow you to index your G nocks multiple ways without having to secure them with glue.
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From: M60gunner
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Date: 24-Apr-17 |
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Shawn is correct on those shafts durablity. Those inexpensive shafts bend easier as well. IF I was going to buy aluminum shafts I would get the platinum, only because of choices. I am assuming this is for target maybe 3D? I shoot aluminum arrows as well as carbon and woods. I still have many doz. NOS shafts I bought when Easton used to change colors each year.
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From: GF
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Date: 24-Apr-17 |
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OK, thanks for confirming... I was looking over the options on one of the sites and couldn't figure out the reasons for the differences in price; but some come with tapers but not nocks, some with nocks & bushings, some with nocks, bushings & inserts..... By the time you've bought nocks & inserts for the Tributes, I think the difference in durability makes the harder aluminum quite a bit less expensive... and in short order.
I used to shoot up a lot of the old American Eagles... Don't need to do that again unless I find a new type of shooting with a very high loss rate... like maybe one of those mass bunny hunts...
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From: GF
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Date: 24-Apr-17 |
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But since we're on tapers.... Favorite Robin Hood shot EVER!
The taper is split in 6-8 different directions like Elmer Fudd's shotgun, and there's a bit of the taper on every section...
I'm thinkin' if I ever hit that close again, it won't matter WHAT kind of nock I've got in there....
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From: IslandSnapShooter
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Date: 24-Apr-17 |
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I love my game getters I wish they weren't black though, any way to change color?
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 24-Apr-17 |
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They are all XX75 material but they are tempered differently than the more expensive models. I kinda like the Gamegetter II camo models at 96,000 psi and they come with both nocks and inserts. The Legacy doesn't but inserts are all that expensive. Tribute, for the money, is a pretty good shaft and relatively durable. You guys haven't seen "junk" aluminum unless you grew up with the old "Swift" models in the 60's like we did. They would bend in a bale of hay. Any made to day are heads above those old critters.
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From: GF
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Date: 24-Apr-17 |
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Good point, George! In bicycles, a brand-new bike that's hardly fit to ride (by bike snob standards) is probably better than you could have bought at ANY price 30 years ago... Don't know where you'd find GG-IIs anymore, though... And at $3/shaft, they're cheaper than wood.
"I love my game getters I wish they weren't black though, any way to change color?"
Yup. Spray paint.
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From: bigdog21
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Date: 24-Apr-17 |
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ISS paint and clear like you would a wood arrow. I have a good stash of old 2016 brown and black camo xx75. And some all green xx75 getting hard to find these colors. What where the ones that use to be kinda like fluted.
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From: longbowguy
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Date: 25-Apr-17 |
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Well I loves me Platinums, but my nice looking black Tributes, and even my gaudy Jazzes group right along with them out to 50 yards and beyond. I believe there are no more accurate shafts made except for very high end target carbon shafts. - lbg
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From: mahantango
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Date: 25-Apr-17 |
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I think the fluted shafts were called Excalibur.
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From: GF
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Date: 25-Apr-17 |
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Yeah, I remember those... I think the fluting was an attempt to get more stiffness from a thinner wall, so carbon must've done them in....
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From: GF
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Date: 25-Apr-17 |
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I got a PM - one of the guys mentioned that the lower-cost, less hardened shafts spine lower than the good XX75s, which makes some sense..
Anybody have an opinion as to whether you can tell the difference without a spine tester??
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