Terry,
Currently I'm shooting mainly Carbon express 150's at 28.5 with 100g inserts behind 125g old Bear Razorheads and 4 inch feathers.
I also shoot Goldtip 3355's,same point loading and .5 longer,but with 2" Razor feathers.
Those were ment to be all round arrows but due to the long distance flight characteristic's I'm now shooting Easton Redlines with standard iserts,Razor feathers and 100g points for Field archery,,these arrows give me better speed,and no sudden drop off at the longer targets from 65-80 yards.
Because I shoot 3D,Field archery,indoors and I hunt,,,I'm now returning to shooting 2016 alloys for everything, because they did always work for everything,they did always fly well,did blow clean through most everything I shot with the Bear broadheads I've been shooting from day one.
Just resently I realised that before carbon shafts,single bevel broadheads and EFOC,,,I never had two sets of arrows,and I never even had to think about bareshafting,point loading,or consider anything more than just shooting well and using sharp broadheads.
20 years ago I measured the wheight forward of the 2016's I was shooting at the time because I'd read that 7% was the best all round balance,it was just a point of interest at that time,but those arrows did come very close so I was happy with that an didn't think anymore of it until just resently when everybody started getting obsessed with all this other stuff.
Most of my comments about EFOC I still belive is true,and I also belive that traditional archers in general are being taking for a ride by people that are more intersted in money than "Traditional archery".
I also feel that if we were being true to the spirit of traditional archery,we would be seeking the simplist way of achieving our aims,we would be seeking self reliance and DIY skills, not getting dragged into more an more complex ways of achieving what people like Fred Bear,Ben Pearson,Howard Hill and others had well sorted long before most of us came along.
When I started shooting,the compound hadn't arrived,most eveybody shot parrallel shafts with 125g field points to match their 125g broadheads,everybody shot Easton alloy arrows for field archery or Cedar for hunting,nobody point loaded their arrows,everybody knew how to sharpen a broadhead,nobody bare shafted their arrows to find the right tune,nobody shot single bevels because they were considered cheap an nasty.
Today I yern for those days and feel sad for what has become tradititional archery today,because it's not what it was,in fact from my point of view it's become much the same mindset as what the compound bought us.
Sorry if any of this insults anybody,because that wasn't my intension,it's just how I've seen things turning over a long period of time and I just don't see the need when what we had was so good and had worked for so long.
Terry thanks for the email.
Be well,
ED.