I have used them for years and years with none of the issues some of you guys have mentioned.  Use the one possum head pictures above on my recurves and the rubber ones on my longbows.  I like the idea that they hold the string in place on the bottom limb when unstrung as well as protect the tip when setting it on the ground. 

Works for.me

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I use the bolt tip protectors. Put a hole in the very bottom. And yeah you need to take them off if you been in heavy rain etc.

I use one like pictured above, Saunders I think, on every  bow that sees the woods or 3d course. Have been for over twenty years. Cheap insurance. Can't  remember how many vintage bows I've seen with buggered up bottom tips from being  stood up or dragged on the ground. Like anything else, just takes a little common sense, get wet, just take them off and dry out.

Bvas, great analogy. That makes me think of LeBra car bras too! 

I've been using the rubber ones for years--rub string wax generously on the tip of the bow before putting it on. Makes it easier to install and protects the bow tip from moisture. I remove it and rewax every few hunts, put on a new one when I start using a new string. No problems.

i use a suitably sized piece of black latex tubing. slide it on as far as you want then leave it overhanging a little and it serves to dampen limb tip vibration on recurves. play with the overhang length to get the dampening effect right.

the difference it made to the sound of my recurve is amazing

I cut 2 thin strips of Gorilla tape. Just cut by eye. Lay one over the end the long way, lay the other one over that. Press down tightly. Wrap some 3/4" vinyl electrical tape around the tip the cross way. Stretch the tape real snug and go around a couple times. On the third wrap, do not stretch the tape. Cut off and press down. This protects the tip, is lightweight, easy to put on and take off, does not hold water, and is really inexpensive. If there is any residue left, wipe it off with WD40 or alcohol.

I've often used my bow as a 'walking stick' (to maintain my balance when the footing isn't the greatest) while stalking an animal. In order to not scratch my bow-tip I've done similar to NY Yankee, used a couple strips of camouflaged duct tape. Works great. - John

Here's what I use. Doesn't hold water and easy to use.
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Ha! Same...99% of the time.

I've been using a saunders tip protector on all my St Joe bows with year drop tips. 

Of course my wife went against the grain and got the wide pointed tips.  Nothing fits on hers.

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Quote from: Possum Head on July 15, 2019, 08:54:49 PM
[attachment=1] I've had two of these on my go to bows for years

Yep.  That's what I use.  Except I cut it down to just below the tight spot there.  Only covers the tip.  Stays on tight.  No water.

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I love em...especially the nice looking ones!

I'd rather have the occasional scratch to touch up than to trap moisture on my tips.  I reset it on my boot most of the time but am not afraid to rest it against a tree with the tip on the ground.  Far easier to fix a scratch than a delaminated tip.

Old thread but good topic.

For those that use Plastic Dip or Liquid tape to simply dip their limb tips into the material, have you noticed whether the resulting 'rubber coat' (that the string loop then slides over) aids in quieting the bow any?  One would think that having the string OVER the rubber protection vs. UNDER a slide-on tip protector would help in the vibration department, but maybe not. 

I have put two on my long bow.  They don't last long.  I could spear an animal with the tips on a Primal Tech longbow. 

I like the plastic ones with the hole in the bottom. Not so much as to protect the tip, as much as to keep the string from falling off and untwisting when I unstring my bow. I unstring when not using for a week or more. During this time of year it is strung all the time.

I've used the rubber tip protectors for well over 30 years. I've had them on some of my bows for 15 to 20 years without removing them and never had a bow limb tip problem.

So the guys using there shoe, how do you do that and pull arrows or keep score at a shoot?