Many say that carbons are too expensive. Over the course of about 7 years I figure to have saved a couple hundred bucks buying carbons due to the fact that I never bend or kink or break any arrows. Unless you hit a piece of steel, they last indefinetly for me. I have had a few of the older Bemans take a split along the seam, but they were several years old at that point. I recently upgraded to Easton Axis and love them. I had no problems glueing the inserts in at all. They work perfect for me. I have refletched the older Beman Hunter shaftsseveral times now and still practice with them. I killed two bucks with aluminum arrows, so they do work (duh) but I prefer carbon myself. Once you shoot carbon, launching an aluminum arrow will seem like shooting a tree branch out of your bow. The trajectory cannot even be compared.