There is also another option consumers have, nub. When we know that a sizeable number of carbons we buy will not be what they' re represented to be, we have the option to buy something else. I could shoot aluminum the rest of my life and be happy as a clam. Unless the quality starts slipping.

If that happens, I' ll be back to clipping wild rose and salt cedar shoots and making arrows out of them, just like I was doing 40 years ago.