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Offline Bullfrog 1

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Most durable carbon you have shot???
« on: March 10, 2013, 01:35:00 PM »
Iam cuureny shooting hold tips with my setup. I must say the most durable shaft I've shot is the MFX. My GT's are nice. Fly good but definetly not as tough.  Bill

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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2013, 01:37:00 PM »
I am finding the new Axis Trad even more durable than my beloved MFX Classics were!

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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2013, 01:39:00 PM »
I'm a big fan of the Full Metal Jackets, personally. I've had better luck with those against stumps than most others.
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Offline pitt98

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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2013, 01:49:00 PM »
FMJ's also.
Damon Howatt Super Diablo 54# @28
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Kwyk Styk 54" 54#@28
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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2013, 02:25:00 PM »
Any of them will be unbreakable if you foot them with aluminum but for a shaft without an aluminum footing my vote goes to the AD shafts.
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Offline xtrema312

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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2013, 02:35:00 PM »
My GT trads are very durable.  I have only wrecked two other than robbing hooding.  No shaft takes that very well.  One I shot in half with another arrow because it was hanging.  The other was from a glancing blow and on a heavy piece of steel and then it slid into a corner where it wedged kind of and that did it in.  The shaft snapped in half, but I also mushroomed the point, bent the brass insert, and split an aluminum footing full length.  They can only be expected to take just so much.
I have only broken one carbon express heritage, but I have not subjected them to near as much at the GT trad.  I just got some AD's, but not sure how they hold up until I hit a few harder things with them.  Never shot the FMX, but hear a lot of good stuff about them.
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Offline Pat B.

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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2013, 02:55:00 PM »
Don't know what the toughest is but I've been shooting the GT 5575's lately.. If I foot the last inch with a piece of 2219 which is a snug fit, the arrows seem to take a lot of abuse. Been using that set up with a 200 Ace Hex blunt and stumping a lot. They seem to do as well as any that I've used..

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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2013, 03:00:00 PM »
CX heritage are the toughest I have found. I like small diameter so I switched to the axis FMJ and then the MFX. Now I'm shooting the Victory VAPs. I have also shot the AD shafts and they are very tough. Here is how I would rank them:
Toughest-
CX heritage
AD
MFX
FMJ
(Only been shooting the VAPs a couple weeks so hard to say)

The best shooting shaft I have ever shot is by far the VAPs.

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Offline Froggy

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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2013, 03:08:00 PM »
CX Heritage....
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Offline T Mowery

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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2013, 03:39:00 PM »
FMJ for me,followed closely by Axis.
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Offline awbowman

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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2013, 03:41:00 PM »
Another vote for the Heritage
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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2013, 03:46:00 PM »
The wood grain finish on the gold tips and arrow dynamics seems to make the shaft much tougher then the black version.  These are the only carbon I have really tried and the only ones I can comment on.  Chad

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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2013, 03:48:00 PM »
By far, hands down, above all others, the old, no longer made, Carbonwoods.

You would have to try them to believe it.

Offline LKH

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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2013, 03:55:00 PM »
Carbon Express Terminator Hunters.  

I once took one with 100 grain insert and a 100 grain hard rubber blunt and shot it into a very hard old telephone pole.  The bow was about 65 at my draw and the arrow about 575.

It took over 20 shots before the end finally splintered about 1/2 inch.  

I've bounced many shots off rock with a judo and never broken one.

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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2013, 05:53:00 PM »
Beman MFX by far....Gold tip traditionals second.
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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2013, 06:09:00 PM »
Again, Carbon Express Heritage IMO
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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2013, 06:12:00 PM »
I have some FMJs. In fact, I have some with 2" blazer vanes that I shoot with my Axis Trads sometimes. These are my "rain-day" arrows. I was very impressed (shooting from an elevated springy rest) that these arrows, tuned up, shoot very nicely and I can switch back and forth.

The FMJ is great but because there is an aluminum tube they will bend, which is the most common loss of an alum. arrow for me.

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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2013, 07:04:00 PM »
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Originally posted by Bullfrog 1:
Iam cuureny shooting hold tips with my setup. I must say the most durable shaft I've shot is the MFX. My GT's are nice. Fly good but definetly not as tough.  Bill
How where you able to compare the toughness and the durablility between the two shafts?
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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2013, 07:07:00 PM »
Beman ICS hunters, by  wide margin.
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Re: Most durable carbon you have shot???
« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2013, 07:10:00 PM »
Byron Ferguson Heavy Hunter, then the CX Hrritage

Just started shooting AD Trads, we'll see how they compare

Had the Axis with HIT inserts split out fairly regular

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