I purchased what was probably the first dozen GoldTips in Oklahoma several years ago. 5 of the dozen were straight enough to shoot. I was told then that the new company was just starting out, and that to produce good quality carbon arrows, you really had to control the climate in the plant that makes them. I was told that they couldn' t control the humidity in their plant then. I bought them because they were the first all carbon arrows that took inserts and not outserts. I shot the 5 good ones until they were pretty much destroyed (3-D shoots only, never hunted with them) then switched back to XX78' s. There' s not a straighter arrow out there, and I' ve found them to be very durable, and not easily bent. I' ll never shoot anything but XX78' s again.