My rule of thumb now is to only buy new carbons and bare shaft tune them for my bow. I will never buy pre-cut carbons again unless it is the exact same thing I am already shooting and I am 100% certain it works in my bow before ordering or buying them. If even one variable is different than my current arrows, I am NOT buying those arrows/shafts.

Long story short; Carbons are fine, but tune them yourself and don't buy anything pre-cut.

God bless,
Charlie

QuoteOriginally posted by Brazos:
Aluminums are the best deal right now.  They have been around for a long time.  They are cheap to produce.  Plenty of precise spines and weights to choose form.  They really are the best deal going considering you can find XX75's shaft's for $30/doz.  another great thing is that 10 years from now you need new arrows you can read the label on your current XX75's and order identicle ones and be back and business.

Craig,
where abouts are you getting the xx75 for $30 a dozen?

thanks.

I agree that carbons can and will work if tuned correctly. They do need to be finessed and takes a little more work to tune. I went back to aluminum for the same reason I switched from wheels to Trad - I'd rather spend time shooting than tuning. But that's just me.

Jeff, Bowhunters Superstore. XX75 Easton Blues, $30.00 doz

I just don't get how you guys are coming up with how carbons are harder to tune than any other arrow material. It must just be me 'cause I haven't had those same results with carbons.      :confused:

I have 6 sitkes i now start my fire with.  

I've tried them all, and I ended up going back to aluminum. You could buy a couple dozen for the price of high end carbon. They fly great, heavier than carbons without having to load them up, and pretty dang tuff. Lots of different sizes to fine tune also.

Jason

There are many many different spine groups in both wood and aluminum in order to find the shaft that works best for you.
In Carbon, there are on average only 4 different groups.
With these 4 groups, we are capable of making them fly for most every draw weight, length and bow type.
If you can't find carbons that work, it is because your not willing to learn what it takes. I'm sure when aluminum arrows first came out, there was a lot of wood shooters having problems swithching too.
Covey, why compare the cheap aluminum with the "high end" carbons. There are many carbons available for nearly the same or less than aluminum.

I also don't see the big problem with front weighting. We now have many different options to get the extra weight up front to make it easier and it has been proven to improve flight characteristics and penetration.

open minds prevail, bigjim