A very long time ago (well, it feels like that anyway) long before carbon arrows, I was shooting 2014 X7's and then a bit later on 2115's.
I was shooting (very badly) at the International Trials (which at some point became the Masters) and was given a tip by Dave Pink (GB International and all round top bloke) which I used thereafter.
The weather was the usual British weather for a mid April - windy and wet. These were the days of double Fita. We were down to 30m with traffic light control. Dave was on Amber with an arrow to shoot, and claimed an equipment failure as the clock ran down. He'd not noticed that on the previous end he'd shot the nock off of one of his arrows. So, having cleared the lines, the judge then let Dave get a spare arrow from his tent, and then proceed to shoot it - into the 10.
All very run of the mill for the day.
However, I'd been watching Dave and watched as he pulled the nock off the arrow with about 10s to go.
As we went up to score I talked to Dave about this, and he shared his secret...... he didn't glue his nocks on.
He simply twisted/screwed the nock onto the swaged end of the arrow - which certainly in those days
Easton did a perfect job of finishing.
I must say I was a bit sceptical about this until I tried it myself. It worked perfectly - the nocks always went on straight, and stayed on unless a fair amount of force was used to remove them.
You might think this practice (not glueing the nock in place) to be risky but from memory I never had an issue with it.
The benefits?
1 - you can change your nock colour or type easily and quickly and re-use nocks
2 - there is no glue to remove (when fitting a new nock), which means that the nock always goes on straight (with glue it either all has to be scraped off or the residue means a less than perfect concentric fit. Also, scraping the glue off often resulted in slight damage to the swaging, again affecting the fit).
The only time this wasn't possible was if the end of the swaging had been badly damaged (from a near Robin Hood). Which happened quite a bit (in those days).
This 'tip' may not be applicable for club arrows where longevity is more important than anything but it did give me a chance to remember and share events from what must be about 44 years ago.