ORIGINAL: Ben / PA
Have fun bending them after you get them all nice and tuned....I was almost ready to go back to alums but a friend of mine just did go back to them and realized why he left. He has out of twelve left and its not like he misses.....the facts are that alums bend and carbons don't...I will work with the carbons everytime.
Yes, but at least they will be in specs out of the box where as a lot of carbons will not be. And carbons do bend/warp and break. I never ruined an aluminum that would not have also ruined a carbon. I have had carbons warp on me after shooting them a lot though. Never had an aluminum wear out on me yet. And I used to shoot around 300 arrows a day.
I have also never seen picture of an aluminum arrow sticking out of someones hand because it exploded on release either.
And you can straighten aluminum arrows if you want to, try that with a carbon.
The truth is aluminum arrows are still the better technology as far as quality control and consistency for the price. Carbons are just lighter is all, which is what made them popular to begin with.
Paul