Over the past five years I' ve tried carbon, messed with carbon, wrestled with carbon, cussed at carbon, pleaded with carbon and never have gotten carbon to shoot broadheads straight. But I have to make my arrows out of full length shafts and, even then, only a few companies make them long enough for me to mount broadheads on them. And that' s just for my longbow and compound. Broadheads hang up on the riser on my recurve and pull the nock off my string.

Then there' s having to add weight to them, figuring out whether they' re straight or not (some of them aren' t even as straight as my woodies), finding out where the stiffest part of the spine is on each shaft, trying to match weight....

Aluminum is a lot less headaches. I bend one once in awhile, but I lose more arrows than I bend too bad to be fixed.