I don't know bear...... I talk a pretty mean game over the internet.....


All kidding aside, there honestly are a select few folks who can outshoot the tolerances of their arrows. And I am lucky to know (or have associated with)a couple such folks. But they are honestly the top 1-2% of the archery world..... and their arrows are paid for anyway.

Carbons have come a long long way, but like anything else, you get what you pay for.

Example: Easton/Beman really only make one or two different carbon shafts (accs and all not withstanding).... you got the Axis (X nocks) and the Epics (H nocks) and the ICS (S Nocks). Everything else (mostly H and S) that is put out by easton/beman as Excel's, hawks, or power hunters or power flights or cabela's arrows etc etc, are just arrows that did not meet the QC standards to become the top shelf arrows. DeBeer's doesn't set out to find 'slightly imperfect-yellow'gradediamonds.... but just because they find them on the hunt for true top shelf tiffany'squality stone's doesn't mean they are going to cast them aside either, because as they say in the car business, there's an ass for every seat.

Carbon Express does exactly the same thing. It's brilliant really from a business standpoint, and the vast majority of the archery world will buy up those Redhead fury arrows at $50 a dozen blissfully ignorant to the fact that quality control at CX could not evensell them at wal-mart as rebel hunters in good faith. And that isquite frankly because the vast majority of the archery world is really rather ignorantwith regards to theirequipment. Most all of us on here make up the 10%ers who live and die archery. We don't really represent an adequate sample of the real bowhunting world.

Carbon arrows have come a long way... but so have inspection, manufacturing and business techniques.... very rich is the man who can take an otherwiseworthless reject and convince someone to buy it for a profit.