About the time I think about using carbon arrows.... EXPLOSIONS occur. Now what?

How do you mean...Explosions..??? If you are refering to carbons failing..Yes they will if you hit an object like a tree or something...Again..remember...aluminums won't do this..but a bent arrow is just as useless..Carbons are more forgiving and have less "flex" in travel...

Carbons need to be checked closer than aluminums for damge just because the damage is harder to see. It seems that the latest arrow problems are with carbon express CXL shafts which are a thinner walled shaft. Oh by the way I've seen aluminums break upon being shot too, so it's not just the carbons.

what are the carbon express CXL shafts? I looked them up in the catalog and I didn't see them in there. I was getting ready to buy the CX Blacks 400, is there a problem with them.

On this BBS and some others I have seen post referring to the Game Tracker Carbon Express arrows. These posts indicate a failure while coming out of the bow. For whatever reason, damage, underspine, using the wrong adhesive, I do think that it is something to think about.

XTARCHER, I am, by no means, saying that carbons are dangerous. I know that aluminums have been known to fail during the shot, but there seems to be quite a bit of failures regarding this particular brand recently.

It could be the fact that certain procedures caused the failure. I certainly am interested in what caused them.

I actually like the benefits of shooting carbon. F.O.C. advantages, strength and weight advantages resulting in better speed and trajectory, also durability advantages.

I am not skeptical of carbons but damaged aluminum is easier to detect than damaged carbons.

I have been hearing a saying that if a carbon aint straight it is broken. That is fine as long as it dont break before it clears the bow.

xtarcher, Are you going to shoot some local 3-d this year?

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