ORIGINAL: avid_bowhunter2005
Rybo,
I didn't know people still used aluminum! Switch Rybo Switch!
If I had to go back to aluminum I would quit.
I'd get into spearing for deer instead.
Someday everyone will go back to aluminum for the "primitive experience" to hunt the way their "forefathers did"
I still use aluminum.... and don't complain neither..... they perform great for me unless they break inside the deer, which is better than a bunch of carbon splinters in the meat, I think.
Plus, aluminum is a bit cheaper a dozen...
I actually do know some who still use aluminums. I find that the aluminums are SO much slower than carbons out of my bow. I need twice as many pins to cover 35 yards with Aluminums. As far as cost, carbons ARE cheaper. I bought 2 dozen Beman carbons about 8 years ago and am still shooting the same arrows. My Dad has shot three bucks with the same arrow and is going to use it on the next one too. He wants to see how many bucks he can get with it. The only thing that has happened was one arrow hit a rock in the ground and split in two down the length of the shaft. But we used that arrow for target practice for several years before that happened. They simply do not shatter like rumor has it. You will bend all your aluminums and have to replace them and the carbons would be like new still. Now that is cost savings. I did refletch them once and they will need it again shortly, but I have a jig and do it over the winter after seasons are over.