If you're talking about those overglorified, light, thin walled beer can arrows, like 2213's, 2512's, etc., then yeah, I agree. When you compare the durability of carbons to the heavier aluminums, like 2216, 2315, and such, there's not much durability advantage to carbon. Okay, so the heavy aluminums are slower. Big deal! When you're talking hunting whitetail deer, where the national average shot distance is under 23 yards, trajectory is a non-issue.

For mulies, pronghorn, open range elk, caribou, mountain goat and such, flatter trajectories might be a plus. But then, there are bunches of those same critters taken by traditional bowhunters at 20 yards and less too. "Good" bowhunters are able to get plenty close to those animals as well, and not have to plink away at 50 yards. But, if someone ain't that good a hunter and has to have the flat trajectory, then go for it. I hope that someone is a good shot.

By the way, you don't bend aluminum arrows if you pull them STRAIGHT out of the target, like you're supposed to. Using that argument to bust on aluminum is like you - or your survivors - filing suit against a hair dryer manufacturer because you were dumb enough to use it in the shower. With the water running![8D]

And aluminums pull out of targets SO much easier than carbons do, even without having to smear creams, soaps, ointments, linaments and unguents on 'em, like you have to do with carbons. That's one major plus in aluminum's column... at least that's the concurring opinion of my back, hernias and hemmorhoids.