Self Bow and EFOC...

[Molson]

There is no doubt there are a number of things you can do to an arrow to increase your penetration.  It is my opinion that carbon arrows perform far superior to wood in every way except one...  They have no personality!

There is something you can't help but recognize as special when someone harvests an animal with all natural equipment.  It just seems to suggest a true spirit of adventure and the heart of tradition.

[Walt Francis]

I do not like making a arrows so I use whatever flies the best and is heavy.  Don't much care if they are cane, wood, or carbon, as long as they hit the spot picked; that is, if I don't misremember (Mark,is that a word? you're the writer) and forget to pick one.  Getting old and senile according to the wife so I got a good excuse.  Anyway, back to the arrows.  Won't shoot the black carbons anymore, they are hard to see in low light conditions.  This may be a satistical anomaly (Simpson's paradox), but I almost always get a complete pass through with heavy carbons, from a 58# selfbow, on deer and rarely get them with wood arrows from the same bow.  Basically, in the words of Tim Ott, it don't matter much, dead its dead and the deer doesn't care which type arrow killed him.

[razorsharptokill]

I'd bet all my archery gear that the Commanches would have shot carbon if they could have just like they shot metal arrowheads when they could get them. It's just an arrow. I have shot both out of my selfbow. Personally I shoot cedar and rivercane preferably.