I shot a 3-d tournament today, had lots of older targets. By the end of the day, I had about 5 inches of black crud on my arrows. Heavy enough to scrape some off with my fingernail. Any solvents work to clean them? Don't really want to use steel wool. I had soaped the arrows previously, they stayed clean for 7-8 targets. Biff

Scotch brite pad werks.

rubbing alcohol is good....use a little armor all on your carbon shafts...works great and NOTHING sicks on your arrow...Hell...It'll probably increase your arrow speed with that stuff too!  

Makes 'em Slicker than Snot on Linoleum!!

Alcohol, Oops, or Goo Gone all work to get the crude off.  Be careful with Oops, it will also take the paint of your arrows.  Not the carbon, just the writing.  I use it to take off the Beman MFX on my arrows.

scott