Pinesap, if you haven't driven the insert a couple inches up the shaft on any of those hits, then you're a lucky, lucky man. You need to start playing the Lottery.

The ones I've wrecked mostly have the insert driven up inside them. Quite a few though, especially Easton Epics, also snap in two about an inch down from the fletches. I'm sure hitting a piece of angle iron 1/8" thick is a little tougher hit than poking a hole in sheet metal.

If you ever want to see someone straighten an aluminum arrow, come on down and I'll teach you how to do it. Ones with a slight wobble, I can get back straight within +/- .001. Ones with a bad dogleg bend in them generally won't straighten perfectly, but I can get them plenty good enough to slap a blunt on the end and use them for stumping and bunny busting. It's easy to do, just takes a little time and patience. I usually do it while watching TV and not doing anything anyway.

My arrow straightener has saved me a pile of money over the past 20 years.

Yesterday was my birthday. It also marked my 49th anniversary of getting my first bow. I doubt I've got much bow shooting left to me and I kinda want to end my shooting days the same way I started. That means wood arrows. I sorted thru my old leftover arrows and pulled out 6 cedars, some nearly six years old. Stuck them on the straightener to check them out. Not a one was worse than +/- .003. Spines checked within .015 deflection. I can honestly say I have not seen a single brand of ICS type carbons that can beat those specs.