Just curious if anyone is shooting carbon arrows from their bows?

I was thinking of trying those Vapor Carbonwoods.

Tyler

They seem to be more popular than ever with trad shooters, but I still prefer POC. I' ve shot carbons, aluminum, and umpteen different types of wood, and always find myself going back to cedar. Carbons do have advantages--consistent, straight or broke, matched from one doz to the next, etc., but to me they just lack the character of wood. Then again, I' ve never been accused of being real smart! [X(]

Chad

I' ve got a friend in Marylyand who shoots camoflaged Carbon Express arrows from his long bow. I can' t remember which ones exactly, but let me tell you he can sure stack ' em where they belong all the way out to about 40 yards.

I love the Beman' s with my recurve for hunting. 2213 aluminums are another favorite of mine. Woods.... I go through spells with them. I turkey hunted with some really nice Rogue River woodies I made up this spring and they flew great but I didn' t get a chance to put ' em to the test. Damned birds didn' t wanna play with me the few times I got to go out this year.

Carbons fly great, recover from paradox quicker than anything else and out-penetrate anything else their weight. The extra speed and great penetration make them solid choices for hunting, in my opinion.

Over the past five years I' ve tried carbon, messed with carbon, wrestled with carbon, cussed at carbon, pleaded with carbon and never have gotten carbon to shoot broadheads straight. But I have to make my arrows out of full length shafts and, even then, only a few companies make them long enough for me to mount broadheads on them. And that' s just for my longbow and compound. Broadheads hang up on the riser on my recurve and pull the nock off my string.

Then there' s having to add weight to them, figuring out whether they' re straight or not (some of them aren' t even as straight as my woodies), finding out where the stiffest part of the spine is on each shaft, trying to match weight....

Aluminum is a lot less headaches. I bend one once in awhile, but I lose more arrows than I bend too bad to be fixed.

I' m with you Art! I was shooting Gold Tips and was doing fine, or so I thought. Broke a string on my bow and could not get the beasts to fly right with the new string! I went back to 2216 beer cans and am not SORRY one bit. No more African Ebony Reed Wood for me! My beer cans weight right at 680 grains and I did not have to add a thing! Yea Haw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ted A. working under the KISS (keep it simple stupid) principle Young AKA COB

I' m using Gold Tips and I' m shooting the best I' ve ever shot. They last alot longer too. I' m not adding weight except for the broadhead. I' m shooting 3355' s full length with a 160 gr. eskimo out of a 50# 27 1/2 draw. (348gr.) They fly great and I get consistent groups. I really don' t think weighting the shafts is necessary. At 20 yards, it will do the job on a deer. Remember, back in the 50' s and 60' s, the average bow was a 45# bow and not as highly designed as those we shoot today. Heck, I' m getting 180 fps from my 50# bow. My first compound wasn' t that fast! Dick

I' ve been running Beman 400' s out of my curve for a few years, they work very well for me. 31.5" arrow, I think I should really be in the next spine size up but the bow seems to be tuned into them (was shooting 6 arrow-4" groups @ 30 yds (with broadheads) on the weekend) so for now I' ll leave it.

RC

When I was a wheel shooter Bemans were all I shot from the time they first came out. When I progressed back to traditional archery the longbow was my tool of choice as were RRA cedars.

This new Massie curve is shooting Traditional Lite carbons like they were made for this bow and Jeff told me I will really like the regular Traditionals with heavy inserts for hunting. He has been able to drop his bow holding weights down into the lower 40' s and still get the penetration he is accustom to for his pig hunts. If they will pass through a pig with lower 40 weight pulls they should work on deer like a charm.

Dick, if you drew 32-33" , you' d change your mind about THAT in a hurry.

My longbow punishes me if I shoot an unweighted carbon (my GoldTips weight out at 450 grains without adding weight and my longbow is 54#@32" ) and the only recurve I' ve ever broken in my life was one I shot unweighted carbons out of. Took less than a year of shooting to break the glass on the back and I bought it new.

Maybe I should have said " Weighting of the shafts isn' t necessary for ME." I' m shooting enought weight that I don' t have to worry about damaging the bow. Have you tried the steel broadhead adapters? The extra weight might help if you feel like experimenting. Dick