CB, no offense intended. Your post was written like all points were incontrovertable facts when they' re mostly a matter of personal opinion and preference. I simply presented an opposing viewpoint.

I do buy new arrows every year. Several times a year, actually. After doing an archery workshop for a troop of Boy Scouts and letting them shoot some of my bows and my arrows yesterday, I' ll be buying new arrows again real soon. Frankly, if you shoot a lot, then you should buy at least a dozen new arrows every year... Even carbons. They might not break outright, but they do WEAR out.

By the way, who mentioned anything about The Chuckster and Easton? Where' d that come from? You have issues with Easton? Well, in the early days of carbon when they were making nothing but pultruded arrows and Easton was making those comments about carbon splinters... It was absolutely the truth. Back then, Easton had been making ACC' s and ACH' s. Aluminum Composite Competition and Aluminum Composite Hunting. They quit making the ACH' s and didn' t recommend ACC' s for hunting. It wasn' t simply slamming carbon arrows back then. It was hanging an umbrella over their butts in the area of product liability.

The metal outserts on the pultruded shafts never, ever kept them from splintering. You could walk around any archery course in those days and there' d be splintered arrows in every trash bucket. Today' s ICS type, bias wrapped carbons don' t splinter nearly as bad. I didn' t think they splintered at all any more, but I splintered one yesterday, an Easton Epic 340. (Shot at the 60 yard butt, used the 50 pin and hit metal target frame)

That is my last point. If durability is that big an issue, then all one has to do is one simple thing... QUIT MISSING! If you miss, you deserve to break an arrow, IMO. If you' re a tightwad, you either give up shooting bows OR you learn to shoot better. As often as the durability thing comes up, and as cliche as it has gotten, it makes it sound like a lot of people don' t have a positive attitude about their shooting. It' s actually starting to turn into one of my pet peeves.

And, just for the record, I think Chuck' s right about round wheels.

Sorry I can' t hang around and play, but I' m heading out for another session with the Scouts. They want to learn how to make a selfbow.