I have shot a lot of Beman shafts, GT, and CE. The Beman bow hunter is a real good shooting low cost shaft. Maybe the best flying I have had, but I have blown up a lot of them. They break easy so I can't use them for stumping unless I am real careful what I shoot at, and that is not stumps.
The Carbon Express Heritage is a great shaft with nice weight. They are very durable. I have had some finish coating splintering issues when cutting, but some tape at the cut point has solved that. The 150 is a little stiffer than a 500 spine and will work for me where 500’s tend to be a little too weak most times.
The GT trad has been a supper durable shaft for me. Cuts nice takes a lot of changing inserts for tuning with removal with heat without any issues. Very durable finish and nice looking arrow. Very slick inside so you have to really rough up the inside before gluing inserts. I don’t think I have broken more than a couple in several years of hard use other than robin hooding them or driving in a point insert in a little. Only a couple times have I actually been able to snape an arrow in half after a glancing shot on something really hard. I love the blems for budget arrows but have found some variations in spine. Plenty good enough consistency for me, but I do tune each dozen in depended to account for what I have found to be differences in spine per batch.
I have my first AD’s on the way. I have heard a lot of good stuff about them. It will be interesting to see how they work for me. Not a low cost arrow like the GT trad blem and Beman, but could be worth it if they are as durable, fly as nice, and are as forgiving as most people say they are for them.
Topic: CARBON you prefer??? (Read 1056 times)
