Most durable carbon you have shot???

[Bullfrog 1]

How I compared the two?  Just by shooting real world shots. Through and sometime into trees. Never split the nock end on an mfx but the gt's seem to split rather easy if hitting something hard.   Bill

[sloaf]

I've broken plenty of carbon express and gold tips.  Both are great arrows but trophy ridge arrows with the insert/outsert are the toughest arrow I've seen.

[RM81]

Ever since I started footing my Gold Tip Trads with aluminum (1.5" front, .25" back), I haven't broken/damaged a single one.

[Danny Rowan]

AD Trads, never broke one yet, some have been through multiple animals.

[reddogge]

So far GT blems from Big Jim have been unbelievably tough and on the third season for the original dozen. Only mushroomed one non footed point on a target rebar stake.

[bigbadjon]

Without using footings and nock rings I think Easton shafts are the most durable. I've had some of the other shafts crack on the lamination line even on foam targets.

[cacciatore]

Carbon Ex Eritage,but I have never tryed a AD

[monsterbuck]

Originally posted by Birdbow:
Again, Carbon Express Heritage IMO

X2 God bless.

[TRAP]

Everyone has their favorite for a multitude of reasons. I've been playing with carbons a good bit since early last fall. Targets, stumps, a few rocks here and there.

AD, FMJ's and MFX Classics all seem pretty darned tough to me. I love the FMJ'S but I have a feeling they are gonna bend when I smack one against a tree. Time will tell.

Tuning has been pretty easy. Fun to play around with, I still love wood arrows and find good ones to be pretty durable as well.

Trap

[Terry Green]

I've been shooting Arrow Dynamic Trads for over a decade exclusively for lots of reasons...durability being only one.

[screamin]

Carbon Express Heritage but I haven't tried AD's or the Heavy Hunter

[Deeter]

Well being new to trad archery, lets just say when I started shooting about 2 months ago my aim wasnt to hot.  I put a few of my Beman Centershots into the side of my barn and they held up pretty good.  So I learned that I can hit the broadside of a barn and that the Beman Centershots are tough arrows.

[macksdad]

Easton Axis.  Or if you want real tough axis Full Metal Jackets

[Tajue17]

I'll always shoot heritage not only for their perfect weight but their toughness.. there are other arrows just as tough but they usually are alot lighter,, as for AD's I used to shoot them and think I still have a few dozen and toughness wasn't the problem (except for the cheap nocks that would break off inside the back of the arrows) it was deflection consistancy when they changed the carbon formula and started doing those wraps up towards the front of the arrows,,,,, I must know about 30 people personally who won't go near them anymore.

[tarponnut]

I can't believe anything is tougher than a GT Traditional. I've shot multiple hogs with a single shaft, missed hundreds of squirrels and hit trees and rocks with them.
The only ones I remember breaking are from robin hood shots(rarely).
Being a hog guide, I see a lot of broken arrow shafts from all makers except GT.

[tarponnut]

I should point out that I have weight tubes in my GT's with brass inserts.

[xtrema312]

I agree on the GT, but I do shoot the 5575 trad with brass inserts. I think the trad shaft could be stronger than their standard shafts based on other comments I have seen at times. I think the longer brass insert helps keep the point from driving in and an aluminum footing makes them capable of surviving very hard hits on hard wood,  frozen ground, and even rocks. But, that is for me shooting max 55@29.

[gonefishing600]

I'll tell you what I'll do!

If you can prove to me through a youtube video, or some other means that Beman mfx's are tougher than GT Trads, I'll buy you a dozen Beman MFX shafts of your choice, or $100.00.

I shoot GT Trads exclusively; I have stuck them in trees where I had to dig them out with my knife. I have hit rocks so hard that the nock pops out of the end, and the field tip flattened out. I have been shooting one set for over three years, and wore out two sets of fletchings, all with no cracks, or splits.

I have heated the field tips up with a propane torch, to let the inserts get hot enough to turn loose of the insert, done the same with Beman MFX Classics, and they split.

Don't get me wrong, I like beman, but I don't think their tougher.

Bring it on!

[kadbow]

I've only really shot GT Trads and CX Heritage enough to judge.  CX heritage are the more durable of the two.

[damascusdave]

Got to say the FMJ...one other reason I like them is they are pretty heavy compared to a lot of all carbon arrows...saves fooling around with weighting them