ORIGINAL: MeanV2
ORIGINAL: walks with a gimp
Abuse an arrow??? I shoot my practice arrows into good targets that stop arrows like they are supposed to and haven't bent or broken any. When you shoot an animal with an arrow or miss an animal, that's where the controlled stoppage ends. It's also where they get broken or bent, which is exactly where I've seen it happen. Is it abuse if it's out of your control? I don't think so.. Had a tom turkey break one of my first Axis arrows and also had a buck bend an FMJ. He didn't lay on it but brushed a tree as he sped away after the shot. If it would have been a carbon I wouldn't have thought it would have broke it. The bend it tookwas slight but clearly noticeable.
If the arrow does it's job I guess it's retirement time anyway but it would be nice if they take a little more abuse.
Russ, Are you saying while Hunting and Shooting animals that Poop Happens?
I know what you mean. I've lost more than a few arrows through damage in that fashion.
Dan
Boy, does it ever
That said, I think both shafts are great quality but my next hunting arrows will probably all carbon Axis of some sort,, in the future,, when ever that might be. I've been hunting with the original Axis for some time and I'm down to 7of those. I still have 10 FMJ's so when the original Axis run out, the FMJ's will take over guiding my Muzzys.
I may be in my 70's by then!!![:-]