One point that Len made that no one else seems to be picking up on is the difficulty of tuning with arrows that are not straight.

Accuracy = Consistency

If you are starting with an advertised range of .006" +/- the range of inconsistency is going to be much worse than that of the more expensive arrows.

The cheaper arrows are not all .006" off of straight. You would think that will be a range from .001" to .006". Unfortunately, the tolerance is “plus or minus”. So the possible total run out is twice that and you may have an arrow with a total run out of .012". But there will also be arrows that that are straighter, maybe much straighter. You just don’t know.

You may be able to get your bow tuned for the best arrow in the batch, but it is not tuned for the worst arrows in the batch. Tuning doesn’t always improve accuracy but it does improve downrange kinetic energy. From the same bow one arrow will fly well and give you a pass-through. Another arrow will corkscrew and not give you the pass-through. I think we owe it to the animals we hunt to kill them as cleanly and quickly as possible. When your arrows have a possible inconsistency of .012” you are not going to be able to do this.

Someone said that there have been a lot of animals killed with arrows that are not straight. This is true. But how many were just wounded that would have been killed cleanly with better equipment?

Accuracy = Consistency

Like Len, I don't believe the advertising claims for straightness. However, I do think that most manufacturers put more care into the more expensive arrows.

We don't always get what we pay for, but when the best is less than double the cheapest, I'm willing to pay it for both target and hunting. I'll save much of the difference by doing my own cutting and fletching.

One other thing - the Wal-mart arrows are built in Korea and China. I'd rather buy American.

Len, have you ever had one of your customers send arrows back to the manufacturer because they didn't meet the advertised specs?

Allen