phantombuck

What is the advantange of shooting carbon arrows over aluminum?

reflexkid

Carbons wont bend like aluminums. I also hate the sound of aluminium when you draw back on most rests.

MO_Bowhnter

Carbon is lighter and they shoot a little flatter. Plus they are tougher and more durable, especially if you shoot goldtips

lou-lou

There are many pros and cons for both try them both with your set up and choose what works best for you

sneekky

yep i like carbon no bending and they do shoot flatter.

Arthur P

Carbons won't bend like aluminum. On the other hand, they'll warp when they lose their memory. Some are worse than others but it eventually happens to all of them. However, since they don't bend, you can't straighten them back out. A warped carbon is trash. Don't believe that worn out fairy tale, "carbons are either straight or they're broken." It's not true.

Aluminums will bend, but they can usually be straightened.

Carbons cover a wider spine range than aluminum. It's easier to select the correct size arrow when each shaft covers a 20 pound range in spine rather than a 5 pound range.

Carbons have a smaller diameter than aluminum, which theoretically gives them a slight advantage when it comes to penetration in game. On the other hand, the smaller diameter makes it more difficult to achieve adequate fletching clearance. So, many folks have given up and gone to dropaway rests to eliminate clearance problems, OR they've surrendered to the inevitable and have gone to 100% contact with rests like the Whisker Bisquit.

Carbons are much more durable than aluminums of comparable weight and spine. As you get into the heavier and slower aluminum arrows, that advantage becomes lessened. In most instances, a carbon will shrug off a hit that will crater a 2213. A hit that will ruin a 2216 will probably also ruin a carbon arrow.

Aluminums are much more consistent in spine, weight and inside diameter than carbons. As such, they are much easier to set up and tune with fixed blade broadheads. In my experience, they are measureably more accurate than carbon arrows, across the board. Also, since aluminums cover a narrower spine range, I think that you can match spine on aluminum arrows to your bow much more precisely than you can match carbon arrows. Which, IMO, is another point that makes them easier to tune and more accurate than carbons.

I like, and use, the heavier aluminum arrows. Since I limit my hunting shots to 30 yards and under, I don't need a super flat trajectory. I need to be able to count on getting 12 arrows out of a dozen that will shoot broadheads accurately and consistently. I'd much rather have that than to be able to brag about how fast my bow shoots, but only get one or two arrows out of a dozen that will reliably shoot broadheads.

Frankly, I'm too picky about the quality of my hunting arrows to be able to use carbon. I have to use aluminum because they are the ONLY arrows that fully live up to my expectations without raping my wallet.

Only one carbon arrow meets my requirements, and even it has an aluminum core. If money were no object, I'd use nothing but ACC's.

ijimmy

NONE ,That is unless they have both , such as acc's , or beman matrix . I have used several manufactures of carbon shafts , none have been even close to the consistancy of alluminum , not close at all . The best carbons I ever used were ,carbon express teriminators , and they lost their spine after about 200-300 shots . Ive never had an alluminum lose its spine that I could tell , they will group after years of use .

dough boy

I like the durability of carbons. They also, IMO, have a better "feel" than aluminum. They also shot flatter, as mentioned in other posts, than aluminums.

ButchA

Wow.... Everyone needs to go back and re-read Arthur P's reply post. That was excellent!

Why do I stick with Easton XX75 #2315's? They are cheap in price and fly perfectly straight out of my old dual cam PSE bow. If I bend one, big deal... I'll use it for a tomato stake or bean pole stake in my garden next year.

When the bow shop setup my old PSE bow, they set the prongs of the TM Hunter rest and arrow nock point to be perfectly aligned when using a 2315 arrow. I wouldn't know how to change my bow setup to be able to use carbons anyway. My bow still shoots great and perfectly accurate, so I don't mess with it.

Butch A.

DaBoys

Bravo, arthur p great explaintion.....
I will add not all carbons are light and agree with heavier arrow (cx hunters @ 10.5 gpi)
Some af acc by Easton are heaveir yet. I shoot what ever I have in hand preffer carbons
but can shoot aluminum if I run out of arrows on a 3d course. What I am thinking here a what fails to said if you want or need that air scoarching speed ussaully carbons are the way to go. But if you are keeping things to a "normal" speed say to 250 fps tops.
Nothing is that finicky from arrow, bow tune and body form. Once that is pushed all sorts of little things happen to make that group larger.
Carbons have grown up but they are perfected and aluminums are the old man here, tried and true.
good luck......