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[TacomaShooter]

Disregarding damage from other factors, what kind of life span can I expect out of carbon arrows? Seems that there would be a lot of wear just from the arrow sliding on the rail, or would this be negligible wear? Is there a major difference between life of a carbon and aluminum arrow?
Sorry, I know that's a lot for one post, but they all relate IMO.

[Fullquiver]

I don't know about the difference in longevity but have discovered some serious quality issues with the carbon arrows I bought for my Explorer.  They are Horton carbon MX series arrows and their were 2 out of the 10 I bought that had serious spine issues.  You won't have that out of 5000 Easton Aluminum arrows.  I used to have a shop building custom arrows and literally have built thousands of arrows and have always seen that the aluminum shafts had the most consistant spine of any kind of arrow shaft.

Longevity between the aliminum and carbon shafts is probably pretty negliglible if you shoot at different spots on the target so as not to be rattling arrows thereby creasing shaft aluminum arrows will last longer than most of the equipment that we use.  Now shoot them both thru a deer and carbons get the nod for toughness.

Edited by Fullquiver, 31 January 2012 - 06:40 PM.

[FuzzyFultz]

I also think that carbons are tougher. But the aluminum are easier to work with all the way around. I am thinking seriously about buying my own bare shafts and going to exclusive aluminum because of the price factor and I can always build my own perfectly to my specs. I just have to learn where to buy good bare aluminum shafts to make 20 " crossbow arrows. I bought 5 of the Easton XX75 brown crossbow arrows and two of them where out pretty bad on one end and I cut the bad end off and corrected them. There where several of the factory carbon arrows out from the factory. I corrected some of them but was surprised at the difference in quality.