bulldog nock collar?

I have been using carbon express with good results for the past two years. I have always taken off the nock collars that come with the shafts. I cut and fletch my own arrows but do not use the collars. Is there a reason for the collars or are they just decorative? Someone suggested that they add strength or even keep the nock from coming out. For those that do use them, do you glue them in place? Seems to me that they are loose and would add to arrow noise/vibrations.

 

when i shot the carbon express mayhems, i found them to fly better with out the collar. i have also heard that they make the arrow stronger, but i just dont see how that little piece of material at the very end of the arrow would protect anything. i have since switched to gold tips and now easton arrows and find them to be better than the mayhems. they were okay arrows, i just had a hard time keeping them flying true. i think my elite pure is very spine sensitive and its shoots the easton fmj's lights out. which arrows are you shooting?

 

I use the CX Maximas and have always left the bulldogs on. If I practice enough and shoot tight groups I believe it protects the shaft when shoot the nock off an arrow. I have several bulldogs that have nicks in them from getting hit and think the shaft would have been ruined had the bulldog not been in place. JMO.

 

can bulldogs be bought for x sized arrows? wanting to try some for my beman mfx

 

The nock collars are there to protect the arrow shaft from nock-end impacts from other arrows while target shooting.

They won't do anything for a direct nock impact (robin hood shot). I had a robin hood a little while ago and blew the collar in half. They do work to protect the end of the shaft from glancing hits that would otherwise damage the end of the shaft.

Mine were loose and I used a small dot of superglue to hold them in place.

 

i could see them protecting from glancing blows. that makes sense.

 

I agree 100% with what he said. I've beat up my CX arrows pretty bad this summer and my collars are dented, dinged and bent up good. Without them, that abuse would have been on the back end of my arrows and that's not what I want.

I also glue mine down with a small amount of super glue.