I shoot aluminums, old Bear green heads and Bear bows; seems to work for me!  BTW, the shot placement wasn't as bad as it looks.  The broadhead exited between her front legs. The arrow backed out when she fell.

Thanks, Serge. Will do!

Trooper,
Obviously the shot placement worked. No penetration problems there! By the way , thats the exact spot i aim if i want to hit em' in the heart.LOL. Nice job.

Yep, been shootin 2018's and 2016's for years.
I also like and still shoot woodies just as much.
All for the same reasons so many others have stated.  However....I did purchase a couple doz. carbons this year to play around with.   I bought them in the spine range closest to what I normally shoot in wood and or aluminum and with just a LITTLE extra point weight I have them flying as good as my aluminums and woodies.

I was late to the alum party. I was making woodies and still like to but I think quality is hard to find. I bought a doz from srta for a deal. They were old alum color and a swaged nock end. I used some krylon camo and they are good to go. Mike from knocking point told me a buddy of his from MN. I think has a swager and does a lot of buisness.

Trooper,
I Bet she didnt go far..  

I like the wood,don't care for carbons,expense
mainly,but at the end of January wally world always put the aluminum's for a buck a piece
for eastons so we use them for shooting the rabbits hiding in the rocks.

2117, 2018, 2314...and few hundered more  

aluminums are just to easy,no epoxy crap,weight tubes,etc... when im not shootin wood,i shoot 2020's, pretty nice shootin a 600+ grain 5/16 diameter arrow without having to do all that weighting mess.

When they discontinued the GGII's I bought 20 dz. but haven't done anything with them yet. I have a hard time giving up my POC. Hap

ok so ,far thanks for all the tips. However i have not heard anything about Foc,Xtreme foc,point loading etc... Is this because of the total weight of the arrow?

I am shooting 200gr up front. (2bl/steel adpt.)for a total of 600gr. I think it came to 16.5 or 18.5 foc cant rember now..that is a 2018

Once you bend one, (alum), how easy is it to fix?
(one bend, and mine are done, which is why I'm attracted to carbon, but hate the cost..)

extreme point weight on aluminums hasnt worked for me. the aluminum doesnt react to extreme point weight the way carbons are said to do.. I can easly get a 600 gr arrow with a unweighted aluminum.. I dont really worry about FOC and such..using common sense stuff ie: moderweight BH and long adapter usually equals a 175-200 gr broadhead wt. has worked VERY well on everything I hunt.

You don't need to front load them, they are usually heavy enough without doing so.  There are more spine variances in aluminum, and they are as consistent between shafts as arrow material can get.

I love my black GGII!

They're cheap, straighter and more consistent in spine than affordable carbons and in my opinion just as tough!

When fine-tuning you can use hotglue and heat the shaft as often as you want.

Also I can shot my favorite nocks (Bohning classics) and don't have to pay a fortune for those tiny carbon nocks where you can't even feel the indicator!

   

I use pieces of brass rod fo frontloading and getting FOC up.
There are no field points heavier than 125 gr. here in Germany.
My GG have an all in all front weight of 210 grain and a FOC about 18.