There is no longer anyadvantage to using an aluminum arrow for huntingimo. You can absolutely flog your carbons into targets, trees, logs, and bone and not have to do a darn thing but put on a new tip and possibly nock and fire away again.Even with abusethey'll still bebe within hunting tolerances99% of the time. I've never bent a carbon arrow. Can't say the same about aluminum. Put it this way, I've gotten ten times the life out of carbon than I did aluminum. Come to think of it, I've never had to discard a carbon for any reason over the lasteightor nine yearssince I switched over exclusively to carbon.The only time they get replaced are if they are lost when shooting or broken off in a harvested animal.