AP I was' nt tearing aluminums up by missing the target,but from slamming them together in the target butt.Just about every aluminum I shot a deer with was toast also.One bad thing about them skinny little carbons with nock outserts.You cant hardly robbin hood them,notice I said hardly I never have been able to splinter one from a head on impact,but have had one or two hang down in my target bag and get hit from the side and splinter.The pultruded arrows won' t take much of a side impact.I' ve had a couple of spine shot deer fall on em and break em too.As for easton I do remember that when carbons first hit the market before they were making the pc' s that they made a big deal about carbon splinters in meat.I thought it was an attempt to discourage people from using carbon.As for Chuck he' s allways impressed me as a guy who does' nt like change,cam bows are the devil,shoots fingers and big aluminums,cut on contact heads arrow speed is evil.Hey AP you sure you ain' t really Chuck Adams?

Later,
CB