It's time for me to buy new arrows.
I do not buy them as frequently as most of you on the board.
My last purchase was 5 years ago. Quit laughing already.

They were CT 230, these are very thin diameter arrows (the thinnest I have seen) that use an outset system, not an insert system.

The very small diameter measurement of the arrowhas prevented me from being able to use the whisker biscuit rest (I believe this to be true - not positive)...which I do have a slight interest in.

They have always shot very well for me, very accurate and durable.
I have not shot any other brand, so I do not know how they compare.

I had e-mailed the company 3 weeks ago to ask them which arrows replaced my 5 year old arrows (CT Whitetail Series?) along with a few other questions (including if the Cabela's SST arrows were manufactured by Carbon Tech).

In any event, I have not heard squat from them. This is very dissappointing.

I've searched this forum and it appears that only a handful of guys use arrows from Carbon Tech....and I rarely ever see them mentioned in magazines or on any of the shows.

So, I guess my question is, should I stick with these guys or move to a different manufacturer, with a slightly larger diamter and an insert system? The insert system would also allow for a Luminock, which I may want to try.

I shoot 65 lbs, Mathews MQ-1, 31" shaft, 100 grain NAP Thunderheads witha release.

Thanks in advance for your comments.

If you havn,t had any problems with those arrows why change. I think you could use a wisker bisquit ifyou were shooting pencils. The diameter won't change where the arrow lies on the bisquit. Technology has changed a bunch with arrows over the last 5 years. Gold tips or Acc's are awsome arrows. Peace

I can't speak for CT's because they are one of a couple arrows that I have never shot. I personally am not a fan of the outsert. This is what cause be to abandon Beman about 10 years ago. I would get crazy penetration (pass through) on my foam target and as a result all my fletchings were getting torn off.

I shot CE selects for a few years and just reciently switched to GT's last fall. I was happy with the Carbon express shafts but I'm not a big fan of supporting world trade and china. I'm pretty certain that I will be buying more GT's when it's time to replace the dozen I've been shooting. GT's may be a bit pricey on the high end shaftsbut the quality is there and you'll be supporting workers in the USA.

I see ads in all the magazines i read

Come back to the "old school" and shoot aluminum XX75's.... You know you want to!

They are cheaper, still holding their own in the archery market, and if you bend one, so what... give it to the wife to use in the garden as a tomato stake!

Why not go with Carbon Techs insertable arrows, Cheetah, Whitetail or Rhinos.

Do a little search over on the Tech. forum for CarbonTech arrows. I believe JeffB, our resident carbon arrow expert, rated them very highly in terms of consistancy for weight, straightness and spine.

Personally, I use either Beman ICS hunters or Easton Excels. Price and durability have been good to me for the last two years.

if i was you orion i would shoot gold tips they are not the cheapest but are one of the best arrows for carbon

This is one area where me and my esteeemed colleague JeffB may or may not differ after he has shot the CT a while.

I cannot argue that the tolerances on the Whitetail CT that I have may in fact live up to their billing. I have no way of scientifically measuring them. My problem is that I found them to be rather fragile when compared to some other carbons that I have shot. I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, I could have had a "bad batch". However any further testing will not be on my dime.

After fletching up a dozen, one of the first arrows I shot ricochetted off of a foam target into the ground (that is a g-r-o-u-n-d, soil, dirt, Mother Earth if you will with the absence ofa hardsubstance we call rock. When I picked up the arrow it was split at the nock end. I thought that was rather unusual but again I was willing to over look it even though I have bounced a Carbon Express, Gold tip, Axisandothers in similar fashion with no damage. But hey, I could have been fooled and perhaps the angle, collision, or a combination of both was more violent than what it appeared. A few weeks later I did the same thing again, guess what, the same split showed up in the same spot. I suppose I should mention that these arrows were not abused just in case someone thinks I may have beat up on them and weakened their spine. The last straw came when I shot one into a piece of fir. Notice I didn't spell fir with a "U". That is fir as in wood. Yep, the same split showed up in the same spot. That arrow put the three strike rule in motion...Three strikes and you're out!

I have a board in my basement I call the "wall of fame". It is astout 3/4 inch sheet of plywood that is decorated with manyburied heads of various manufacturers in the archery industry. Most of those heads were shot with the same singlearrow a Carbon express CX. If I were to have used my Carbon Tech Whitetail CTs I would have run out of arrows long before I ran out of broadheads.