Usually yes for long bow crowd. But for the CB crowd most all of us shoot arrows right at the minimum arrow weight for our CB's so usually they are the same or close. I know the Horton carbons are only 16 grains lighter then the aluminum ones. I used to always shoot aluminum arrows but then when I got the new supper Max a few years ago I was sinking them into the target real far and was bending the arrows after time pulling them out. Switched to carbon and love them. Plan on never using aluminum again.