Ain' t that something, WV? I' m wondering if he' s pulling our leg.

Navy, I started using aluminum arrows in 1978. In all that time, I can think of only once where I accidently bent an arrow while hunting, a bizarre accident involving the closing of a tailgate.

If you fall hard enough to bend aluminum arrows, you probably fell hard enough to nock the sights out of whack and possibly tweaked that finely tuned arrow rest as well. Maybe even bent that big aluminum cam, or dinged a string cutting burr in the track. You' re not going to be sitting in the stand with a freshly dropped bow until you' ve checked everything out and fixed it up anyway. At least, I hope not.

And, while you' re in camp fixing the bow, you can grab a refill from your spare arrow cache before heading back to the stand. My experience with aluminum is the same as 5 shot' s - generally all 12 out of a dozen arrows will shoot broadheads great. Only occasionally do I run into one that won' t. All my broadhead tuned arrows take the trip, not just the ones in the quiver.

Besides that, if you fall and bend your aluminums, that means you' re not moving very carefully in the woods and every critter in there is probably headed for the next county.