victory or goldtip

[Nimbus1376]

As you increase the up front weight and / or the draw weight of your bow, you need a stiffer arrow. If underspined, there will be too much arrow flex in flight which could impact accuracy. If severely underspined the arrow could basically explode on release. Over spine can also effect accuracy as well. I use archers advantage which is an online archery ballistics calculator to figure out my components. I think it’s around 12 bucks a year for the online version. Well worth the money.

 

[jaberryhunter]

Gold Tip arrows are famously tough as nails and offer nice components. I shot 400 spine ultralights for years and they routinely survived misses on 3D courses (glancing off rocks, embedding in trees) and went through deer and never broke. I've only had 4 break ever (that I can remember, besides robin hoods before I switched to pin nocks): 1 spine shot, follow up to first spine shot where arrow pinned deer to the ground and the deer rolled on arrow (so broke 2 in one day), skull shot (don't ask), and once my target fell over at an angle and one arrow cut another in half because I was too lazy to go set my target upright/pull arrow. I shot 340 spine ultralights for 2 years with zero breakages.

I have Gold Tips for my recurve that are 15 years old and fine.

I'll be moving to 340 spine hunters this year, and expect those to be tougher than cockroaches.

EDIT: Just saw your other comment. Gold Tip offers all sorts of factory heavy inserts and also weights that screw into the back of the inserts to add weight. I think you could make a nice arrow without all those mods and only using factory components.

that's what i use to shoot was the gt hunter xt,s 340. tough as hell just like the smaller diameter after shooting the axis 5mm

 

[jaberryhunter]

I was also looking into black eagle rampages. But I hear alot of mixed reviews on them.

 

[Bowmanmike]

I have a question regarding this. When I built my victory rip arrows my intent was to put 250 up front 100 insert and 150 head but I couldn’t get the 150s to bullet hole unless I went down to 65 pound draw instead of 70. So my question is what is better 65# with 250 up front or 70# with 225.

More weight up front means higher FOC. What spine arrow are you shooting?
I think it makes very little difference which setup you choose,they should be pretty close in performance.

 

[peteherbst]

I’m shooting GT Hunter xt at 30.5 inches with 320 gr up front. 65lb draw weight. Darts and my bow is very quiet shooting them.

 

[Apex7]

Both good arrows but I like the Goldtip XT arrows .

 

[FisherHawk]

I have not shot the Gold Tips, but have been shooting Victory TKO since they came out. They shoot straight, great quality inserts and tough as nails. I have taken many deer with them and would recommend them for your set up.

 

[MOtgrinMI]

Love my victories. Never had a tougher arrow. Bought replacement arrows and haven’t had to use them yet because the original ones I had haven’t failed yet after going through lots of deer!

 

[Outdoorsman33]

I like both brands I’ve shot gold tip up till last year I switched to the victory xtorsions and like them all the way up to their components that’s the only complaint I have with victory. I’ve never had issues with gold tips components ever even on their micro diameter shafts.

 

[jaberryhunter]

Well I ended up getting neither. Found a hell of a deal on black eagle rampages. Dz 300 spine for 80 new in the box. So ill give them a try. Thanks everyone