ARROW SHAFT

[Sumspot]

Hi, I am looking for tips regarding carbon shafts, I want a good one with a good price and long life time.

Thanks

Sumspot, Somewhere.

[T-man]

I used a dozen Easton Carbon Aero Epics for about 2 years. They held up real well and no complaints. They area decent a all around arrow and are a little lower down on the price list. This year I finally switched to Blackhawk Vapor ACA's and they are great. Another good all around arrow and I got and extra 8ft/sec out of them. Assuming you are using one arrow for everything I find they are pretty tough to beat.

[Dillershortbow]

I just got back from the range where i was testing arrow had Epics Pse dominators, gold tips, Bemans . All priced about the same at 20 yards all hit about the same even 30 couldnt really tel the difference but at 40 & 50 the gold tips shot better with the pse and bemans close behind. O all had duravane 3d 2 inch vanes 85 g tips and white nocks.

[cdn-redneck]

I use Gold Tip xt's and the work fine for me. I have no idea what other one I would use, but would like to hear more about the ABC Xtreme arrows from ABC Archery. Here is the website.
http://www.abcarchery.com/xtreme.html

[Dillershortbow]

Those ABC extremes look interesting maby somebody will test some it would be nice to buy something made in canada for a change.

[petew]

For price and good quality you can't beat the Easton EPIC and Excell's.Bowman's sells them for $70.00 completed with Duravanes.If you want speed, then the Easton light speed's are a great arrow.They cost about 20 bucks more though.

[PatD]

The Xtreme Pro's that you are refering to are a great all carbon arrow. They are quite straight, very light, very durable, and grouped well for me right out to 90M. I fletched them with a ton or corkscrew, and ne4ver looked back.

On a spine tester that uses a variable amount of movement on a lever to deflect the arrow a pre-defined amount, we tested them to find the stiff side, and found them to be within 4-6 thousandths of an inch all around each arrow and all arrows in the doz. were consistant. We also tested another large name arrow (equivalent pricepoint/spine/and weight) which also shoots well, and found them to be 22-35 thou. off. They did still shoot great though.

Just some tech geek info for anyone wondering.

I stopped shooting them because of availability at the time. Sort of wish I did not. The 4060 is comparable in spine to a 400 Easton rated arrow.

[IslandArcher]

I shoot with fingers using a pse xlr @ 72lbs with 31 inch arrows with a 30 inch draw. I switched last year using bemans ics 340's. My speed went up by approx 38fps. I thought that was great and it was when when your unsure of your distance. There was a compromised. My groups were larger then I would like. Using fingers and carbons arrows I found out this can be a common problem. I have made the switch back to aluminums for now since I can match my arrow spine better. I also have the piece of mind of not worring about carbons splinting within my game.
Todd