Bolt size

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Mailman
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Bolt size

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Okay, here goes. I just hit a metal pipe that holds my target and snapped a lazer gold tip carbon bolt. I have some older arrows so I tried to see if they were the same diameter. The arrow just fits inside of the gold tip bolt. Are they too small? I shoot a Phoenix.
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Anything with a 2200 I think. 2213-2219 ish, that's all I know.
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Mailman I myself am not sure about this but think 2117 is as small as one would want to shoot. Do think I would forget that and just replace the arrow you got busted.
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I guess your right, don't want to screw up the bow. What size are the lazer gold tips? What is the smallest diameter you can use?
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Mailman wrote:I guess your right, don't want to screw up the bow. What size are the lazer gold tips? What is the smallest diameter you can use?
Lazer gold tips = 22XX DIA., the smallest arrow in DIA. would be 21XX
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Post by wabi »

Aluminum arrow sizes ar in 64ths of an inch for the outside diameter and indicated by the first two numbers in the desigantion. A 2213, 2215, 2216, or 2219, for example, are all the same (22/64") diameter. 21 or 22 series shafts are best for the Excaliburs. The GoldTips are 22/64" diameter.
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Post by Wes E. »

Like wabi said. And the second 2 numbers is the wall thickness. So a 2217 and a 2219 are the same diameter with different wall thicknesses.
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Post by ecoaster »

I found an Easton XX75 bolt today. It was a 2018, looked to be about 17" long, and smaller diameter than the gold tip laser IIs.

Any ideas what it could have been launched out of?
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