Man, several years agoI would have agreed with you 100%. But I've just seen too much to say for certain that any one way is better than the other.

When I lived in GA, my best friend made his main source of income from tracking deer that hunter's couldn't find with his dog. I always went with him when I could. From what I've seen, carbon arrows and mechanical broadheads were pretty much even with aluminum arrows and many fixed blade broadheads. Basically, if you make a bad shot, no amount of broadhead (or bullet for that matter) will make up for it.

It's like anything else, if carbon arrows aren't working well for you, go back to aluminum. If mechanical broadheads aren't working well for you, go back to fixed blades. If you don't like it, don't hunt with it. For what it's worth, I've killed deer with both carbon and aluminum arrows, and both mechanical and fixed blade broadheads. My buddy with the tracking dog still sticks with aluminum arrows and Simmons Land Shark broadheads. To each their own.