Thru my new zipper, I am using Gold Tip Traditionals with thier wieght system. Thru my Martin longbow and dreamcatcher, I shoot 2018 aluminums, and thru my new Osage selfbow, I just ordered some sitka spruce tapered shafts.
What day? Some days I shoot wood. Some days I shoot aluminum. Some days I shoot carbon/glass composite. All-carbon arrows are too light for my tastes, at least without some substantial additional weight, like brass inserts and 160+ grain heads.
Only exception is, I never shoot anything but wood from my selfbows.
I shoot 50/55 ceder with my Hunter recurve and Longbow,but I shoot 400 beman clasics(carbon)with my PSE Kudu take down but now I think iam going with ceder with that too....
Out of my own bows I just shoot wood. (Hexshafts to be exact, though there are a few cedars that I still shoot) Customers vary...many like the lack of maintainace that carbon affords....
Wyvern
POC with my longbow and selfbow. May compete a little with my recurve this year, plan on shooting aluminum through it if I do. Only reason is I got a deal on a bunch of aluminum shafting a week or two ago.
Chad
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."-- Theodore Roosevelt
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. Ecclesiasties 10:2
The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats
Carbon only for me.....I'm still a little too hard on arrows.
At the lower velocities these bows produce they can take a beating that's for sure. I haven't broken one yet. (Lost a couple )
The recurves get a mix of things but, recently, I've been shooting aluminums more often. The longbow and selfbow get mainly wood, sometimes aluminum off the longbow.
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wooden or carbon
Some days I shoot wood. Some days I shoot aluminum. Some days I shoot carbon/glass composite. All-carbon arrows are too light for my tastes, at least without some substantial additional weight, like brass inserts and 160+ grain heads.
