Best cabon arrows for me?
03-27-2010, 06:17 PM
#11
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 12,764
I don't think that is a smart a$$ remark at all. The cost of today's 'good' bows is a far cry from what they were when I started archery hunting over 40 years ago (didn't even have compound back then). Let's say you get a good deal on a bow and shell out $600. You can easily plan on spending an additonal $250 min for quality sights, 1/2 doz arrows, release and other odds and ends like stabilizers, peep, silencers, etc. These days you can easily spend well over $1000 for a very nice set up. This is a long way off from the $42 I paid for a brand new 40# Bear Grizzly recurve and andther $12 for a dozen cedar arrows. I think the glue on field tips were something like $.50 and Bear razorheads about $1 ea. Less than $60 I was all set. And I shot a goodly number of deer with that set up.
03-27-2010, 08:23 PM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2003
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I did not take it as a smart a$$ reply either. IMHO Archery equipment is just too darn expensive.
I can buy a Weatherby rifle & shoot premium Weatherby Magnum ammo for less money than I can buy a quality bow & set it up with good quality accessories.
I can buy a Weatherby rifle & shoot premium Weatherby Magnum ammo for less money than I can buy a quality bow & set it up with good quality accessories.
03-28-2010, 10:49 AM
#13
Fork Horn
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I was saying it's a smartass remark since he felt the need to title his response "poor newbies".
03-28-2010, 07:01 PM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: SE Ohio
Posts: 2,531
I have the Excels for $57 and that includes Priority shipping. The Beman ICS are $67 including Priority shipping. IMO you get what you pay for, and like BC states it makes little sense to me to pay for a top of the line compound and then refuse to spend $10 to $20 for a better arrow.
To each their own. That's why they make so many different arrow shafts.
Dan
To each their own. That's why they make so many different arrow shafts.
Dan
Not the answer your looking for, but its proved true for me.
You can take a top notch well tuned bow, and shoot crap arrows out of it, and it will not shoot well.
You can take a mediocre bow, and shoot good straight consistently spined arrows where the spine matches that bow, and shoot great.
The arrow is I would say the most important part. I see guys spend well over 600 dollars for a bare bow but try to go cheap with arrows.
I suggest at the min beman ICS hunters. I used em for years and they are ok. But if you are going shoot a nice bow, why not look at some easton ACC's.
You can take a top notch well tuned bow, and shoot crap arrows out of it, and it will not shoot well.
You can take a mediocre bow, and shoot good straight consistently spined arrows where the spine matches that bow, and shoot great.
The arrow is I would say the most important part. I see guys spend well over 600 dollars for a bare bow but try to go cheap with arrows.
I suggest at the min beman ICS hunters. I used em for years and they are ok. But if you are going shoot a nice bow, why not look at some easton ACC's.
I shoot some "CHEAP" arrows, see signature line, and they fly quite well. But I agree, many of the REALLY cheap arrows are CRAP, including the Fury's mentioned above. I got lucky w/ the arrows I've been shooting for a few years, as I just tried them because they seemed to have pretty good specs, and they WERE as good as advertised.
Maybe, maybe not. I have about 4 dozen arrows ready to shoot right now, and I have about $240 or so in them, several of them are over 5 yrs old, and still shoot straight and are still in good shape. Several I'd bet have nearly 500 shot on them. You can't buy and reload ammo cheap enough that it would ever come even close. You can't even shoot a .22LR as cheap as I can get xxxx number of shots out of a dozen arrows that I have $60 total in that I may shoot 10-12k times in a year!!!!
