RE: Check, re-check, re-tune your arrows.
PatapscoMike: I'm not in any way trying to be confrontational on this subject. Your continued usage of the comparison between fishing rods and arrows is, to me, a little like comparing apples and oranges. An arrow is a launched projectile that must be straight in order to fly straight. It must sustain a 200+ mph launch in a nano-second and stop almost as fast. The fishing rod scenario, on the other hand, is a static device that undergoes a 'bending' momentum. While it's nice, and very helpful that an arrow can be bent an return to it's initial position, it's not, IMPO, as critical as needed a very straight launch vehicle. After all, a crooked arrow, whether it be aluminum, carbon, wood, etc., will fly crooked until sufficient drag coefficients assist in its flight down a relative straight line. I believe that carbons are superior in ruggedness and recover quicker off the string. That being said, their downfall is the straightness issue which is being addressed in time. Knowing the whole story, IMPO, is better than believing half truths.
Yes, I concede that a carbon arrow will bend and return at a greater angle than an aluminum arrow. I just don't see your point about the issue at hand. I'm just advising members of this and other forums as to what to look for in choosing arrows. I don't think I mentioned any personal preference at any time in any of my threads about arrows. I state, as a matter of fact, the positives and negatives of each. I do, however, think that your continued challenge and inferences about fishing usage verses archery are not true to the point.
Dalejbrass: No, I would not condone people 'selecting' arrows in my shop. This would leave all the 'less than desirable' arrows to the unknowing. I even supply arrow spinners in my shop at strategic locations so that the customers, sometimes with my assistance, can select the ones that are best for broadheads and those which would do better for FT practicing.
If I were to try to send arrows back to the manufacturers, which I did consider, I would be 'black listed' with every supplier of arrows in this country. It is much better if thousands of customers would send them back. This way the suppliers would soon get the message and we would all then get better product. At the least, maybe they would stop advertising those ridicules specs. I don't condone the 'screw the next guy or shop owner' principle. Fair is fair, and the next guy or shop owner shouldn't be jammed because one person wants to pay the same price but get the advantage over everyone else.
I'm not saying that you're trying to do this; but, the end result, if practiced by many would be detrimental to just about every one but the supplier/manufacturer.
Sometimes it gets to a point where some of us don't even want to post things like this because of all the negative comments, innuendoes, and challenges beyond the subject matter.[&o]