Dave,

My guess is you are correct. I too had noticed the interesting price for the ICS Trebark. You will notice nowhere does it state ICS “HUNTER” Trebark, and they are priced much less than the ICSH Camo Plus.

These are quite probably Hawks or Ventures, or seconds/thirds ICSH w/ a photofusion paint job to help sell them (the majority of people love camo arrows for some reason)

As I understand it, the photo fusion is so thin it’s more like a sealer coat. I cannot see it affecting spine very much, and I’m sure Easton/Beman is accounting for it in the “grind down” of the thickness of top layer of carbon.

And NO, the spine is not in the weight of the arrow necessarily. A cursory look at the Easton relative spine charts (in their downloadable catalog) will show you that it is not true: e.g. A 3-49 A/C/C and 2314 both spine the same (.390).

Yes some of the Cabelas shafts are made by Beman & identical in construction to the Beman ICSH, but are “seconds/thirds” grading.

Good timing as well, I just received some interesting correspondence from a Easton Tech person about how Beman and Easton grades their all-carbon shafting, and it has almost to a tee confirmed my own personal testing.

In addition I spent about an hour last night “fine tuning/prepping/cutting” 10 brand new ICSH carbon shafts, and came out with a set of shafts that rival any dozen of high dollar carbon shafts for straightness that I’ve owned and are better than a large percentage of them. In addition they all weigh within 3 grains of each other (which matches perfectly with Beman’s +/- 1.5 grain advertised tolerance)

P.S. They are also about 20 to 30 bucks cheaper than the high-end carbons from other manufacturers.