Curious who uses aluminum versus carbon shafts

[picasso]

After trying both aluminum and carbon in my Phoenix, I noticed that the aluminum arrow was extremely slow and dropped very quickly.
I look for accuracy and speed with as little drop as possible. Also, I don't believe that carbon arrows can bend and stay bent. You can bend an aluminum arrow just by removing it from the quiver but not so much for a carbon.
I know that there are a lot of folks out there that like aluminum but this is just my opinion.

Picasso

[vixenmaster]

One thing i have learned here in the land of Rocks. Don't matter which i use carbon or alum. the odds are against me to have my arrow not trashed after the shot hunting deer here. I have found my alum. to be the easiest to make logs out of. I can get up to 1500 gr est. heck of FOC fer sure!

[Tenn. Equinox]

I like aluminum best. Easy to work with. I add 3 inserts to the front by cutting the lips off and cutting the insert in back in half.
22 % FOC. with 125 broadhead in a 2213.

[Michael Stogre]

I use aluminum for hunting, carbon for 3 D shoots. By the way it's a myth that carbon arrows don't bend.
In the picture below a lazer II shot out of a vortex is clearly seen to be bent. Boo has called it the "warping" of arrows"

[Michael Stogre]

I wish Easton would produce a 2219 XX78 digital aluminum shaft since I make my own arrows. However, the 2216 version works very well and gives me a 470 grain arrow which according to the Italian guys formula is practically perfect for the phoenix I use. My arrow is tipped with a 150 gr.
boltcutter for excellent FOC as well. By the way their formula is 2.7 x draw weight. For the phoenix
that would be 2.7 x 175 =472.5. Matthias said they derived this formula empirically so that the energy
is tranferred to the arrow and not into the bow!

MJS.

[M&M]

it seems that most like the carbon type arrow and I as well shot them for a couple seasons but have had some break and have seen pics of other carbons that had splintered in the animal so with that being a possibility I switched back to aluminum 2216's for health reasons..... mine not the deers. I don't want to eat meat with carbon splinters in it that can't be good. and besides the aluminum arrows are cheaper, I am not saying aluminum won't break or bend cause they will but they won't leave splinters in the meat so I feel for me and my family they are the better way to go

[jay73]

.... I as well shot them for a couple seasons but have had some break and have seen pics of other carbons that had splintered in the animal so with that being a possibility I switched back to aluminum 2216's for health reasons..... mine not the deers. I don't want to eat meat with carbon splinters in it that can't be good. and besides the aluminum arrows are cheaper, I am not saying aluminum won't break or bend cause they will but they won't leave splinters in the meat so I feel for me and my family they are the better way to go

Ditto.


Jay

[the elf]

Aluminum---got lots---am happy with results---no reason to change.