I agree with you and will go one step farther, the thing about carbons being straight or broken is a bunch of crap as well. They warp and break down in spine over time as well. Heck sometimes they are bad right out of the box if you check all of them when you buy a dozen, rarely do you see this with aluminums, even the cheap ones.

I will be honest and say that I have shot a lot of carbons and never really had any problems with them. For what I do they all shot pretty well. My favorites are Nitro Stingers by Arrow Dynamics. I just feel aluminums offer more for the money in most cases, and I'm a cheap SOB. Carbons are a bit tougher then most aluminums and can take a bit more abuse and don't bend if you do something stupid like step on one or something. However I don't seem to have any trouble damaging them. Most of the things I do to ruin an alumimum would ruin a carbon as well. And with aluminums at least you can tell when they are bad. Carbons are a bit trickier, they may be bad and you can't tell by visually looking at them sometimes. And once a carbon is messed up you should really pitch it for safety reasons. With an aluminum if it has a crease or is slightly bent you can still shoot it if you want to. It won't shoot that well, but at least it won't snap in half and stick through your wrist on release. Ok, shooting creased aluminums is probably not very wise either, but I never claimed to be[8D]. Also I feel aluminums have an advantage of more spine selection as well. The carbons are fairly genaric in that department. Aluminums have a ton of selections to pick the weight and spine you need to fit your bow better right out of the gate.

I shoot the thin ones like 2213's and still don't have that many problems with them. Of course I shoot pretty short arrows. If I shot full length arrows things might be a bit different I guess.

And as far as pulling them out of 3-D targets, don't think pulling carbons wrong won't mess them up either because it will. Most of the carbons you see that are warped in the front are from pulling them wrong. Or sticking them in a piece of wood or something. When you wrench around on them from side to side trying to get them out it breaks the fibers on the inside of the arrow where you can see it. And eventually gets this little S warp to it from the strands starting to let go. I bet the heat from sinking into the foam doesn't do them any good either. I don't shoot a lot of 3-D though, just the one I have in my back yard or at a friends house pretty much. Other than that I shoot into bag targets exclusively.

Just my thoughts on the subject any way.

Paul