GT Nocks breaking. . .

[L. Harris]

Wow! I've shot GT Trad shafts from the time they hit the market and have never had a nock to break! I have had them blow out when I hit something solid dead on, but hey, thats my fault.

[xtrema312]

Originally posted by tradhunter:
The solid color nocks are not as brittle as the see through or clear nocks.Usually if ya stick with the solid color nocks ya wont have trouble with them snappin,less your good enough to hit em with the other arrows.

Same here.  Solid color ok, but the translucent ones are easy to break. I had too many brake on me including one that went on release and cracked a riser on a bow.  I pull all of them now and put in the Beman solid color nocks.  You can bend those all around to adjust for string, and I have never broken one except on a robin hood and even then they have stayed on one piece even though I split them end to end through one side.

[BigJim]

I have to say that in 3 years that I have only had two people ask me about the nocks so I havent't heard of any problems with any of them other than that.
I typically shoot white nocks but have ocasionally shot the translucent orange and green without any problems. Yes, I have broken a few, but only after hitting very hard objects. Infact, I would have normally expected some of those hits to produce broken arrows.
Now I can only account for 10 + doz. arrows over the last couple of years (I don't like looking for lost arrows), but I also exclusively shoot bows in the 80lb + range. The nocks are the same for all size shafts too.
This is not to say that there hasn't been an issue, I have only had a couple of customers contact me about broke nocks and I sold nearly 3000 doz arrows last year.
thanks, bigjim

[Chinook]

I've had similar issues with GT nocks. I had it happen once on release - only once.  That was it for me and I switched to using either Bohning Signature or Easton.  I haven't had a problem since.

On getting them out, I waited until I got back to the man cave, and I used an old deck screw.  Just thread it right in to the broken end and pull it out.

[Yeoman Bowman]

Thanks for the replies.

Seems that some of you have also had trouble, particularly with the translucent nocks.

Can anyone post a link to a specific nock that don't break? 3 Rivers carries tons of nocks & I want to make sure it fits the diameter of the GT Trads.    

Thanks again.

Yeoman

[Jeff Roark]

I had that same problem and I had to replace all of mine. They were the ones that looks clear or glassy, green and had GT on them. They'd break during a shot or if I hit something hard. I got some of those Easton Supernocks and that cured that problem.

[jcar315]

I have been shooting some GT Trad that I just got the other day and have broken 1 trans. green nock already.

New nocks on the way!!