Carbon or Aluminum arrows
 

So which do you use and why?

All of these above plus cedar.

Everything has a different pro and con.

I use alum's for trad shooting because I want the wieght of 10gpp for reliable penetration. Also, they are straighter and more consistent spined than carbon.

I use carbon and Carbon/Alum for wheel bows. The ACC have the best of both worlds with straightness/consistent spine. I want at least 6gpp for wheel bows.

I like cedar arrow for selfbows and ones I make because they are forgiving. Good cedars are expensive.

Aluminum - Easton Gamegetters in 2315, because they are good enough for all my hunting and cost only 5.50 per arrow.

+1 - ditto for me

as bc said they all have their ups and downs. i prefer carbon but then again i shoot 63 pounds at 312fps so i dont need the extra weight.

Rare indeed is the modern archer who shoots aluminium. Most stats have the carbon shafts eating up 90% or more of the arrow market.

However, it's extremely hard to find an arrow as straight as a top shelf aluminium shaft like a XX78

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You can't beat a quality alum arrow for economy and they are plenty accurate. I always used aluminum and was meticulous about keeping them straight. I would tinker in my "man's room" as the wife calls it for hours playing with my arrow straightener until I had them perfect. I'd do that a couple times a month. Now I buy good quality carbons. Yes they are more costly but you can't argue their toughness and durability. Just last night after having trouble with a rest and swapping it out and getting it set up, I went right out to 20 yds and forgot all about the major sight adjustments I had made. The carbon arrow flew just left of the target slamming into a concrete block wall taking out a sizable chunk of concrete. The FT was bent at about a 20 degree angle and the nock was laying in the grass. I figured the arrow was a goner but when I checked it out on the nock end there was no crack and the nock fit snuggly. I bent and twisted the arrow in every direction and detected no defects. If this was an alum arrow it would have been trash.

Carbon Easten Axis for me.

Aluminum's for me. 1916,2014,2114,2016,& 2018's depending on what bow I'm shooting

Easton XX-78's Confidence with this quality arrow and no chance of surprise breakage or contamination from a broken carbon in game.

I started out with graphflex arrows then i used easton aluminum for 10 years with good success . then I got the bug to try carbon arrows they were browning xt (goldtip xt) and I have had those for at least 10 years with thousands of shots and many kills i started with 1 dozen i have managed to retain 5 of those still I am now shooting them out of my new Mathews Hyperlite , I have never gotten that kind of dependablity out of aluminum , some of those Arrow have been shot through over a dozen deer and other than refletching are like new still. Awesome:happy0157:

Aluminum/carbon.

we've come a long way baby , years ago carbon was junk , very inconsistent . aluminum was king , still aluminum is a good shaft , and carbons finally got consistent . i shoot axis fmj myself and plain axis for a lite arrow

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Both. It's hard to beat the price if a dozen aluminums. I get my Eclipse X-7 2613's for less than 60$ a dozen. Glue in some 225gr points, slap on 3-4" shield cut feathers and I'm good to go for any indoor known distance shoot in the world;)

Easton FMJ's :party0005:

Nothing wrong with carbon
 

but I restarted with aluminum arrows and will probably stay with them.

Have no interest in faster than faster arrows.
I know aluminum and fletching my own arrows is down pat.
The arrows have always been accurate and they've given me long wear.
Accurate and relatively less expensive than some.
I scouted and I dropped the carbon idea like a hot rock in a Georgia August. I always used uncut arrows and cut them one size for practice and another for hunting. With the aluminum arrows, I used an inexpensive hack saw. For the carbon arrows, industry had moved on to high speed arrow cutting, expensive, saw.

At the time, that ended the carbon saw study immediately. Not about to give up my hand hack saws!!!

But in the meantime, if I ever go to carbons, I'll cut them myself, now I had a special saw used to cut tile for home jobs, and I found that it would work excellently with carbon.

I do hate to spend money for no good reason.

my only question is what do the numbers mean on arrows?

2275, 2315, etc...???

The one major thing that I noticed when I switched from alum to carbon is how much flatter they shoot.

My 10 yd pin works out to 30yds for me for the carbons.

2712

27= diameter
12= wall thickness

Btw, I will be shooting more aluminum now as I am getting acc pro hunters tomorrow.