I use expensive arrows cause I have the money to...I have shot excellent with cheap ones though..Byron Ferguson can shoot a quarter out of the air all day and frisbies thrown behind his back with a mirror to look at and his cedar arrows don't have the exact tolerances that our cheap carbons of today have...there is some thought for you..go with your budget..cheap carbons perform well enough for 3D and hunting..Amazing that Fred Bear killed anything with out his fancy exact tolerance arrows and no Enigma camo