TreBark, all I can do is go by my own experiences with low end carbons. None of the %^&! things would shoot broadheads consistently. Some of the blasted things wouldn't even tune with broadheads at all, PSE Dominators in particular!

I've spent enough money on the cheap stuff that I could have bought 3 dozen ACC's or 5 dozen darned good aluminums. Got me plenty of high dollar tomato stakes out of my experiments though. Lesson learned. RELEARNED actually. It's a long standing precept of archery that the bow is secondary to the arrows.

All any bow can do, compound or selfbow, Mathews, Merlin or Hoyt, is bend and store energy, then release the energy to an arrow and send it in a particular direction. That's it. Nothing else. After that arrow has left the bow, the quality of the arrow is what determines whether it hits where it's aimed or flies off into the weeds.

Better to cheap out on the bow and buy high quality arrows than it is to spend big bucks on a bow and cheap out on arrows.

By the way... Didja ever wonder just HOW they go about deciding which arrows out of a particular production run get labeled 'select'? They don't tell you that, do they now...<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>