If it weren't for the target butt frames at the range, welded up out of angle iron, and my penchant for long range practice with longbows and recurves, I'd lose far more arrows than I'd destroy. But those metal frames... It doesn't matter whether the arrow is made of aluminum or carbon, when it hits a frame, it's destroyed
Just how precise are we getting here. If I shoot maybe 20 to 30 yrds what am I going to see different with aluminum to carbon? I know for a fact that I have shot my goldtips through the garage door and into a metal chair, no damage to golgtip. also hit a rototiller made a hole in the metal no damage to the goldtip. I have hit the top of targets, deflected no damage to the goldtip. I can't see the advantage to aluminum. I know the goldtips have saved me alot of money over the years. It's like anything else you either like them or you don't. I would like to see someone straightin a bent aluminum arrow I know you mean the spline but once there bent good luck. Maybe I'm not looking at this right, but I'm shooting goldtips or some carbon arrow. JMO.