Caution!!! Check your used arrows!

[WCB]

Serious question. Why shoot carbon/aluminum arrows? I thought it was better to get away from aluminum arrows?
My Easton ST Axis arrows have been shot at many targets and several have killed multiple deer. They seem to spin test OK and I always am checking my arrows by flexing them and listening for any crackling sounds and any visible damage.
But after breaking 2 arrows this year on deer I have a new dozen Axis nano carbons to fletch...

[Mike Javi Cooper]

Serious question. Why shoot carbon/aluminum arrows? I thought it was better to get away from aluminum arrows?
My Easton ST Axis arrows have been shot at many targets and several have killed multiple deer. They seem to spin test OK and I always am checking my arrows by flexing them and listening for any crackling sounds and any visible damage.
But after breaking 2 arrows this year on deer I have a new dozen Axis nano carbons to fletch...

Consistency is the reason most use the carbon/aluminum composite shafts… that and some just like the additional weight/shaft diameter ratio. After years of sorting and indexing hundreds of carbon shafts to get the best spine match and aligning the spline I’ve gone back to the Easton A/C/C’s for my hunting and outdoor target arrows.

[bowsticker]

they will exhibit a longitudinal curvature

What?? LOL

[BTLowry]

Lots of good information in this thread.

[Ron]

FMJ's are super tough arrows and the idea is to have strightness of carbon, but the strength of aluminum. Great shootng, hard hitting arrows. If your arrow would have been carbon, it would have been broken.