West, Carbon arrows are fine if you're not using a broadhead soit would not affect anOlympic shooter with field tips as much. The only time carbon arrows fly bad is when you have a rudder at the head and tail of the arrow, the two rudders place tourque onthe entirearrow shaft and areas in the arrow shaftthat are not consistant (the weak spots) willflex casuing the arrow to veer off course.This factis not myopinion, it's the laws of physics. Any ballistics expert will atest to this.

Just an FYI, in the recentBejing Olympics, the gold, silver and bronzemedalists allused Easton X-10 pure aluminum arrows.

I personally use Slick Trick 100's, they won't fold up under pressure like the ones pictured in this thread but there are dozens of otherhigh quality fixedheads to choose from. I'm not just saying this stuff just to spout off,I made the mistake of using an expandable once,I hit a beautiful bull elkwith anexpandable broadhead in 2002. I had a 76LB compound bow, I was shooting Goldtip pure carbonarrows, the shot was 17 yards broadside at a bull I estimated to be about 320 inches. The arrow hit perfect, one blade caught a rib and openedcasuing the arrow tokick violentlysidewards as soon as it struck the animal, I only got about 4-6 inches of penetration and I did notrecover the animal--lesson learned, never again. The guide told me the following year that the bull was shot in rifle season, it could hard walk, it was badly infected where I'd hit itand it ended upscoring 333 P&Y, the bull was so badly infected that they threw away all of the meat.I'm 100% confidentthat if I had that shot again with my current setup, I would have harveted that bull instead of wounding such a magnificent animal and having it suffer an entire month before finally being taken.I saw the guide again this year, he told me that this scenariohappened over and over with guys using expandables and finallyheput a restriction on hunters in 2005 barring them from using expandables. He's not alone either, many guides have similair restrictions now and for darn good reason.