bolt selection

rifleman · Post by **rifleman** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:31 am

I am considering a hunt for wild boar. Are the gold tip lazer 2 bolts strong enough, or should I purchase some aluminum bolts?

rutman · Post by **rutman** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:28 am

I don't know for sure but I broke a GT laser 2 in half on a wild turkey.

diesel · Post by **diesel** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:36 pm

I'm sure they will work fine. I've never broken any of my gold tip Laser II . Most of the bolt problem we have is finding it after the pass through.
Now my older brother uses 2219 bolts and he only bent 4 this year .
Two of those are when he had to walk up to the deer and shot it again after a spine shot.

hawg hunter · Post by **hawg hunter** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:52 pm

I've used both Gold tips and Beeman thunderbolts , worked great on a lot of hogs. but have broke a few on pass throughs hitting rocks. Aluminum would not hold up any better in the conditions that I shoot. A hog will bend them just flexing if you don't get a pass through.

Ronnie

A.W · Post by **A.W** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:23 pm

Hogs are tough critters as you know. I have never hunted them but if I did I'd use aluminium bolts. I'd be concerned about the carbon bolt splintering inside the animal and ingesting a shard of the carbon.

My 2 cents.

GaryL · Post by **GaryL** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:18 pm

A.W wrote:Hogs are tough critters as you know. I have never hunted them but if I did I'd use aluminium bolts. I'd be concerned about the carbon bolt splintering inside the animal and ingesting a shard of the carbon.

My 2 cents.

Sure right on this one A.W., rifleman I myself would go aluminium ....