Hey all, I've shot carbons for a long time and like them but I made up some Easton legacys awhile back and was shooting them out of my widow and my longbow and they just shoot wonderful!!!! So I guess i'm sticking to shooting aluminums, they are more affordable and they are heavier gpi, and if I happen to loose or break one its not really a big deal. Is there anyone else that shoots aluminum, that feels the same way as me? Thanks!
Yep, I shoot them and love them. Easton XX75's 2016's. I do shoot cedar shafts when stump shooting.
Just made up some flu-flu's out of old xx75's I bought way back when. They shot great. Nice and orange!!
I switched to alum legacy's after carbon and now am planing on trying wood next.
Nope, aluminum are way more expensive to shoot. I stump shoot and hunt a lot of small game and carbons outlast aluminum 5 or 6 to one at least. Actually wood last me longer than aluminum as well. Shawn
I went full circle back to aluminum over the summer. I think they are the best shaft for what I do. XX75's are cheap to.
I shoot aluminum, wood and carbon. I have 2 dz 2117's made up for hunting, 2 dz woodies that I shoot from my "lefty" and the AD Trad Lites I planned on using for bear hunting.
My small game and stumping arrows are a mixed bag of aluminum and wood. I like the consistency of aluminum and easy to work with when dipping. I also like them swagged for hunting. I know carbon is tougher but it's hard to beat a good looking aluminum arrow.
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Nope, aluminum are way more expensive to shoot. I stump shoot and hunt a lot of small game and carbons outlast aluminum 5 or 6 to one at least. Actually wood last me longer than aluminum as well. Shawn
I've had the opposite experience with aluminum. I stump shot with one arrow all last summer. I must have shot it a thousand times or more, and it's still good. I've bent a few aluminums in my life, but only after direct hits on rocks. I don't think I'd want to use a carbon arrow after such a hit for fear of failure.
I shoot 2018 Legacys and love them. I also shoot woodies. No carbons. I don't like them. (nut)
My experience has been great with aluminums as well, Jake. Love 'em. Easier to work with than carbons in my book--simple little rotary tube cutter is all you need, some hot melt, and you're good to go.
I shot nothing but wood for over 20 years, and even poked fun at my beer can shooting buddies.
I used to always tell them "Shooting aluminum was like petting a dog backwards, it gets the job done but it just ain't right".
Six years ago after receiving yet another nasty dozen cedar shafts I finally had enough and secretly ordered six Legacy's from 3rivers. I fletched them up and tried them from my recurve. Holy Cow! Perfect flight from ALL of them! Never had that with wood.
Since then I am an aluminum convert and am enjoying accuracy like I never thought possible. Sure is nice to not ever get fliers.
I still like to make and shoot wood, mostly for stumping and some home range target shooting. But for serious 3-D and hunting I am all aluminum.
I've never tried carbon. I don't care how long they last I just can't bring myself to spend that kind of money. When I can't find an arrow after a reasonable search I want to be able to walk away and not fret over it.
If you are careful and don't shoot at hard stumps an alum arrow will last a very long time. I still have 3 of that original half dozen Legacy's.
Another life time user of aluminum arrows here.
Since I shoot aluminum arrows, I don't abuse them by going stump shooting. I go roving instead where I shoot at pine cones and large leaves laying on the ground on the forest floor. I'll also shoot at anomalies on dirt banks. With these targets, the chances are rare if I bend an aluminum arrow.
I shoot 2117 aluminums and they are pretty cheap for me. The only place I really ruin them is at the local indoor 3D range, where a miss usually ends up hitting something hard enough to bend the arrow.
Where I stump shoot, it's all dirt, mud and grass, hardly any rocks to worry about. I've been using the same stump-shooting arrows for several seasons. I lose them a lot more often than I bend them... and I don't lose many.
Thru the years, I've shot 2016, 2018, 2117 and 2219's. Liked them all. Always seem plenty tough to me. Never shot the large diameter, thin wall aluminums. Maybe those are what get screwed up so easily?
I shoot mostly wood these days, though I still have a mess of 2016's that I still shoot from some of my bows.
I got to say the aluminum shafts are easier to tune for me also been using 1918 and 2016 shafts for years.
Got to love those autumn orange shafts! :thumbsup:
Aluminum be my last choice, carbon arrows are amazing, wood arrows are traditional, Always nice to have a few sets of woodies around Aluminums best function is footing my carbons
I played with carbons for a few years and went to aluminum's a few years back and that's where I'm staying. If you get a thick-walled aluminum, they're pretty durable.
For those that like Aluminum check out the new Easton Tribute Shaft. Good alloy and affordable.
Aluminums forever!!!! :clapper: :clapper:
in Over 40 years, i've never had a reason not to shoot em, other than shootin woodies now and then out of my longbow, never have tried a carbon, just never saw a reason to.. Aluminums are consistant and very easy to get a hunting weight arrow without any added weights,over the years i have shot alot of diffrent sizes and my current 2020's and 175 gr head weigh a little over 600 grains, they work very well, just like my zwickies, i'll probably be shootin em alot more years to come....
I shoot aluminum mostly because I need a 100# spine weight and those are hard to find and expensive in wood . Cant even come close with carbons . The Easton 2317s do me quite nicely and very durable . :goldtooth:
I agree lots of advantages to aluminum as stated above