Thanks for the review. I've been trying to find these loose to play around with a couple before buying a bundle.
Its hard to find them but I think Lancaster Archery will sell them individually. Might be your best bet.
A new Update on these. I had an insert work its way out one one arrow. I believe it was just junk glue as I know the bottle was getting there in terms of age. No matter what I tried, I could not pry it out of the shaft. So, I opted for the tried and true drill bit trick to tap it out. well, this ended up cracking the end of the shaft (its happened before and I don't usually do it except last resort). So the arrow is junk. I tried to get the insert the rest of the way out, at least to salvage it from the ordeal. Got mad and took a pair of pliers and tried to bend the insert and break open side of shaft to get it out of there (at this point I didn't care if I ruined the insert). To my surprise, i snapped the insert off, but the arrow didn't break any further. Not sure what to think. Either the inserts are weak, or the shaft is incredibly strong. I really bent that insert to get it out. So I'm thinking these shafts are legit strength wise. So far, I really like these shafts. There are a few quirks with this type of arrow in terms of the outsert and collar. Once you get through that and learn how to properly build them, they are awfully good. Just might be in my quiver this fall.
As mentioned above you could glue the collar on but if you damage it it might be a pain to move. You could try a low temp hot glue maybe. I don't use the ballistic collars at the moment but I did find that those rubber o-rings for broadheads seemed to help keep the tip tight and reduced any rattle when I did try them.
Well done on the write up. I still find it funny that people want to try to disprove the physics of smaller diameter shafts. Even when I did the Gold Tip video with Levi Morgan and Tim Gillingham at ATA this year, Gillingham tried to imply that the smaller diameter doesn't enhance penetration. There is no physical way that's even possible. Again, well done.
Thank you, I really appreciate that. I don't have the means to do any more "scientific" tests, but I am going to do a bit of comparison with a standard .246ID Pro Hunter vs these .166ID Pierce shafts. I'll be very interested to see if I can consistently see a difference and to what degree.
Cool, let us know how it turns out. I want to find two arrows that I can get to weigh the same, a small/micro diameter and a standard to large and shoot them into a bunch of stuff. The only way that I can think to compare only the effects of the OD is to have two arrows shot from the same bow, same tips, same weight, same FOC so that the only variable is the OD.
Any updates on these shafts? I am in the market for new arrows and have been looking at these really hard.
So far I'm very pleased with them. I posted a while back about the how they're a bit finicky to build in terms of components all fitting well together and spinning broadheads, but outside of that, I am happy with them. Accuracy seems on par with my GT Pro Hunters and the durability seems to be legit.
