Opinion: best value carbon shafts

[A.S.]

Another vote for the CX Heritage!

[snag]

Here's another vote for Carbon Express Heritage. Love those 250s with 100gr. brass inserts!!!

[James Wrenn]

For toughness and value I too vote for the CX Heritage shafts.For a great arrow that is not as tough but not as heavy either would be the Beman Bowhunter.I

[J.Williams]

CX Heritage.

[Jim Picarelli]

CX Heritage--very durable and very consistant in spine

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Carbon Express Heritage

[maxwell]

Dr Ashby,  What is internal footing?  How is it done?

Thanks,   Bill

[wihill]

For me:

Best beat around/value carbon:
Vapor Arrows from Sipsey River.  

Best General purpose arrow, mid price:
Gold Tips

Best highend carbon, high price:
Easton ACC or FMJ

I've got all three, and others from almost every company I can think of minus GrizzlySticks or AD.  Those are the ones I prefer at the moment.

[Paul Mattson]

The new Grizzly Stik Woodies and Banshee's are going to be hard to beat.  There shear size and mass has every other shaft beat.  They are just one tough arrow.

Next in line are the Arrow Dynamic's.

Carbon Express Maxima's will beat out the Heritage shafts by far.  Because they are a woven carbon and have Bull dog nock adapters to prevent spliting the nock end.

The Gold Tip Pro Shafts are top for GT.  Then XT's followed by the Expedition's and Trad's.

[Clinglish]

carbon xpress heritage 250's.
IMO they are just as good as Goldtips but the finish is better

[amar911]

CX Heritage 250's are great for the price and AD Trads are probably better but more expensive. Paul at Badger Arrow or one of the other guys who builds these things every day probably knows a lot more than the rest of us about what is the toughest. Mostly I want arrows that fly well and penetrate the animals. Toughness is nice but secondary. Most of the good carbon arrows tend to hold up well. Some day all the manufacturers will offer arrows that are "internally footed" or otherwise collared so that the weakest link in the arrow is not at the ends where the points and the nocks are.

[tradtusker]

from my experience
i first shot vapour they where a nice shaft but VERY susceptible to splitting/cracking if you hit something hard.

from the goldtips i used they are good but not as durable as the carbon express. the heritage CX are the toughest and all round probable the best value, you can get a dozen for $65 or blems for less than that. they are tough

also shoot Beman MFX with the thin diameter and thick carbon walls they make for a very strong arrow. iv not broken one yet but they are not cheap!

[ncsturkey]

Carbon Express Heritage   Best I've shot

[Hattrick]

CHEAP to shoot beman  ICS $49 dozen. I think grizzly stiks are way over rated, with my experience  not even close to the toughness of carbon express for what they cost. This was stupid but we shot the grizzs an carbon express in to a block wall at the local bow shop an it costed my buddy a lot more than it did me when we were done shooting. I had the  carbon expresses, just a little test on tuffness. The carbon express terminator hunters won hands down on the BLOCK WALL at 20yds. Right now i`m shooting MFX`s cuz of the small diameter no problems yet. Hope this helps

[BEN]

As I said earlier, CX 350's, but..............I cut them @ 30" and use 200gr. up front. I like the extra weight this set-up gives me and they fly well from my 62# Ancient Spirits Thunderhawk.

[BodarkOkie]

AD's

[blueline]

I like the grizzly alaskins But i choose to use them on special hunts only. I like the easton Full metal jackets for weight and durability, Have not seen an AD yet. For me nothing beats wood

blueline

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

I think the Beman ICS Ventures I picked up a few months ago on clearance for $28/dozen were the best deal I've found. I should have bought more.