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Not slapping anyone in the face, stating factual evidence seen by my own eyes in my 35+ years in this sport and industry.

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If the hunters want the cheapest arrows they can afford, that is NOT mine, Len' s, or any other dealers' fault! Some are pointing fingers in the wrong direction here!

I understand where you guys are coming from, but realistically, there are only a small handful of people who will ever go to such extremes, and even if some of us dealers did also in our attempts to make an example and promote a better product, we would simply be cut for some trumped-up reason. " Spitting into the wind" comes to mind here.

Dog-eat-dog world. Best thing we can do is to all work together to find the best products within a specific industry--here we are talking arrow shafts. Buy the ones we find have the best tolerances, and boycott the ones who do not. We dealers build arrows yes, but who will be the first ones to complain IF we were to charge $200 per dozen for carbons that are all hand-weighed, matched, and or even tuned to the same hole out of a hooter-shooter?(we have to get paid for our time spent, time is money, right?) Will everyone buy them? Of course not. This is the point. Many people simply do not care about such extremes.

To be honest, I see more crying about virtually everything on the messageboards nowadays, heads and shoulders more than I ever heard throughout my entire archery career up until this point. Why is that? I think it is just simply something to talk about more than anything....

Bottom line and easiest way out of this for those who feel they are getting " shafted" (get it, arrows, shafted, oh, never mind[&:])---buy three dozen arrows,[] sort thru, match weigh shafts and components, assemble them, match weigh them again. Keep only the ones that match. Shoot them thru a hooter and individually tune each one to hit the same hole at 20 yds. If they do not, put them aside also. When you come to find 12 that hit the same hole, stop there, put them in your quiver. Sell the rest on e-bay as brand-new arrows like most knowledgeable archers who have access to a hooter do. (If you don' t have a hooter, no need to bother anyway, because I know no-one who can consistently put arrows into the same hole at 20yds by hand, so moot point) If you feel the manufacturers are not within specs, e-mail or write letters to the manufacturers telling them their stuff sucks, then buy a different manufacturers' products next time around and try them instead.

This way, you always have great stuff in your quiver, are never out any real money, and have the satisfaction of knowing you voiced your opinion to the appropriate sources, not simply bantered on a messageboard system where the manufacturers never show anyway and therefore never hear the gripes to begin with so nothing ever gets resolved. Simple, no? Pinwheel 12