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What shaft material do you currently hunt with?

Old 06-21-2004 | 07:13 PM
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Default What shaft material do you currently hunt with?

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Old 06-21-2004 | 07:15 PM
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You should allow for more than one choice. I hunt with /have hunted with all of them

As it is I shoot A/C/C and Carbon...guess I'll vote A/C/C
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Old 06-21-2004 | 07:54 PM
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I use Gold Tip 3D pro's in 3555's The guy who own's the shop uses them for hunting moose on down to Turkey's. I wasn't sure whether 3555 would be enough spline, but I'm going to try them and see for myself.I'll sure be ticked if that moose walk's away looking at me .
Some of you's have told me that this shaft is too light for moose, but I sure hope your wrong .

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Old 06-21-2004 | 09:32 PM
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Carbon shooter here, Goldtip Hunter 5575s.
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Old 06-22-2004 | 06:12 AM
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beman matrix for me , put down acc's , very similar , Tryed axis shafts and could not get them to fly , I was very relevied to see jeff say he pitched his allso . When I started withthe matrix shafts I had some issues , found I need to replace nocks more often .
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Old 06-22-2004 | 07:07 AM
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Interesting results so far and I cannot say that the results surprise me considering the demographic representation of the folks that visit these forums.
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Old 06-22-2004 | 09:04 AM
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It depends on what I'm hunting. I shoot Gold Tips for turkey and antelope and Beman Matrix for deer and anything larger.
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Old 06-22-2004 | 01:19 PM
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I have hunted with carbons the last 8-10 years.
I started hunting with aluminum arrows, and hunted with them for about 5 years.
Then went to the skinny bemans with outserts, and switched to Beman ICS.
But, this year I have purchased aluminums and am thinking strongly of hunting with them
again this year. Camo
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Old 06-22-2004 | 03:13 PM
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Used to hunt carbons from Beman. Now I am back to xx75 aluminum in 2315 at 30 inches. It packs a whallop. I had trouble patterning with the carbon. Could have been me though.
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Old 06-22-2004 | 04:37 PM
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I have hunted with both carbon and aluminum in the past but I have to vote for the heavy 2219 aluminum's that I currently use! Great for elk!
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