RE: first shots
You are over spined, but you cannot tell anything about arrow flight by the arrow sitting in 90% of targets out there, bag, layered foam, etc targetsare not good for this. The foam 3-D are pretty good but not perfect. But, looking at the arrow in flight is the best, note two people are nice for this.
I am not up on aluminum arrows, but when i did shoot aluminum with 45 pound recurve, I shot 2018's and 2016's.
Some may disagree with what I have just said about the targets an that is fine, but they would be in error.