Aluminum vs. Carbon

[h20hunter]

Carbon all the way. Performance is outstanding compared to aluminum. I'd like to hear from Rad on this.....what would, if any, benefit be from using alum instead of carbon.

[dreamingbig]

Goldtip pros here... They are very durable and last longer for me than aluminum would.

[dscubame]

Chevy or Ford?

[Rainier10]

Full metal jackets for me, they work great with my bow, no complaints.

[Fullabull]

I would never use Aluminum again. FMJ's are awesome, can't see using anything else until I run out of them which won't be for a few years. By then the FMJ will probably be replaced by something better.

[longstevo]

Chevy or Ford?

Haha, right? 

[zike]

How do you bend aluminum arrow back into shape? Can't imagine you can get any arrow to spin true after any damage! I shot aluminum when younger and shooting recurve bow. But now with the new technologies, I shoot the fmj and love it's performance! Get better penetration than anyone I see at the range.

When I shot target archery in the 70's, we had a jig with a dial indicator to check arrows and it was easy to straighten the ones that needed it.

[blackveltbowhunter]

Carbon all the way. Performance is outstanding compared to aluminum. I'd like to hear from Rad on this.....what would, if any, benefit be from using alum instead of carbon.

  I am sure RAD would have some great info 

  My experience is that aluminum wins the specs to money ratio every time. Comparing XX75  (.002 straightenss ) to Easton Axis (.003 ) and doing a quick sweep through ebay. On average it appeared that the XX75 were roughly 1/2 the price of Axis. So with aluminum it seems you get the tightest arrow for your money. The question is do you need that tight of spec out of a hunting arrow? Who knows.. each individual must decide that. My personal arrow is .001 straightness and IMO the difference shows. They also cost 3x as much as aluminum. Not as big of a deal to me now, as it would of been when first taking up bowhunting as back then I went through arrows seemingly 3x as fast. 

[acorn]

I shot the Easton FMJ for two years. Killed two nice bucks with them, pass throughs on both. However this summer I noticed by grouping were getting bigger. I messed with my bow for months trying to figure out what it was. Paper tuned, bare-shaft tuned, tried everything, but still didn't have tight groups like I wanted. Finally the last thing I checked, which should have been the first, was spin my arrows, 7 out of 9 were bent. I've obviously never had that problem with carbon. Thus I went back to gold tip all carbon, slightly larger diameter shafts, but shooting much tighter groups.