Yep. I killed my first deer with a bow at 14 used a bear recurve and cedar arrow with a glue on zwickey head, I then killed my share with a jennings T star II and alum arrows. Am I better today? Tough question the biggest advantage to carbon is the fact they can take more abuse than alum and with metal prices today cheaper to boot. They do have their issues though as we all need to be aware of, like spintering and the issues that come with that. Technology can be give and take, I surely see the advantages to things but I don't feel the world is better off all the time with making things easier and allowing less work and thought to be used. That is a side note of this discussion LOL. Today people think they can't live without a cell phone LOL. As a teenager we didn't have them so you couldn't miss what you didn't have and we got along just fine. Again plus and minus to alot of technology. I agree the bows have come along ways but they will hit a techno wall, as the computers have done and I think we are getting close to that point, it will switch to other things that will be markted as MUST HAVE"S. Nothing worng with technology, as long as consumers think about it. I mean you look at what many "THINK" they need to be a successful hunter these days compaired to years past LOL. Great marketing I will agree.
Once again "marketing" is brought back into the conversation. Those of you who use to kill deer 25 years ago, are you still using the same bow, the same arrows the same broad heads? I mean they worked then. You killed deer so why not just keep using the same old stuff. Yes there are going to be things invented for all walks of life that really are not improvements whatsoever. But I think its pretty obvious (or at least it is to me), the injexion arrows I'm shooting are striking my brand new Rhino target with 2+inches more penetration and certainly tighter groups. I have tried my best to show that with the photos I've posted so far. I'll gladly post another 100 photos of 1000 more shots just to let you guys see it without having to spend a dime. Wind can't have the same effect on a smaller diameter shaft as a larger one. These things aren't marketing they are innovation. Do you need an Injexion arrow to kill your next deer? Nope But if the fact that they are "new" is the one thing making you hate them, I'd have to say your pretty narrow minded. I have no idea if 10 years from now injexion sized arrows will be the only thing we are all shooting, but I can see with my own eyes they improve my shooting which improves my chances of doing the ethical thing when I release an arrow at a Whitetail. Lets take "marketing" and "innovation" and look at it in another walk of life. Lets just say that today at 2 o'clock I have an opening in my dental practice. You have a tooth that just hasn't been treating you very well and you don't care what I do you just want to stop hurting. I sit you down and use my old school forceps (pretty much channel-lock pliers btw) and spend the next 30 min putting you through pure agony. The tooth shatters in pieces you are close to the point of passing out, but hey I got the tooth out for you, I know you must be so glad to have come see me. After I sit you up you are just at a loss for words, your hurting, your mad, and you just don't understand what just happened. You look at me and begin to ask, "why would you do that to me? You didn't even numb me up. You broke the tooth because those pliers over there look 100 years old. And I've never hurt like that in a dental office in my life. What is this 1857?" I'll just simply reply, "no that's how they use to pull teeth and as I just proved it still works just as it did back then. Isn't that what you wanted was the tooth removed?" Obviously you would see my butt on FoxNews that night, and not because I just won dentist of the year honors. Innovation in and of itself should be welcomed in all walks of life. However we also need to test and retest that innovation to prove that it is an improvement to what we currently have, and that its safer, easier, more efficient or just a better way to do things all around. I'll continue as a get time to post some photos of me sighting in all my ranges. I'll also continue to compare them to the FMJ's so that we all can get a better idea if its just some fad or if it is the way of the future. I'd also like to add my decisions were easier as unlike yall I was completely starting over with no current gear. So having to spend the money on new broad heads etc didn't matter as I was going to have to do so anyway.
Poor man's vote $130 for 6 get outa here! No thanks I will stick with my Victory VAPs with SS inserts for $180 a dozen. All the same benefits if not more with the penetrator tips for much less.
Is this guy like a salesman for these things or something? No one hates them because they are new, just get over it....we don't want to spend 250 on a dozen shafts, and then on that buy special Broadheads for 20 bucks a piece....is it so hard to grasp that for some of us winging a 50 dollar arrow is a little much when our 20arrow is arrow is hitting and killing anything we want.
First off as stated in an earlier thread I am shooting CARBON Easton Injexions. I spent the same as the post above you did for a dozen Victory arrows. $186 cut fieldpoints and sitting on the front door. I would have spent the same on 12 FMJs. The broad head argument is retarded as muzzy has already proved companies will continue to modify their broad heads so they are "special", coupled with the fact that those broad heads cost the exact same as the ones for any other arrow. You also can't possibly believe that $250 for 12 ACC Injexions will be the norm 12 months from now. As will all new things the cost is always higher when first released. Its why some people bought $600 VCRs some time ago. So no I'm not a salesman in the slightest, but I'm also shooting the same $20-25 arrow as you. Heck even if I bought the ACC I couldn't get to $50 an arrow unless I was shooting gold plated broad heads.
Not sure where your buying your full metal jackets but mine cost nowhere near a 180 a dz that's with custom wraps an 4 inch feathers I might have 125 in a dz of them Sent from my hand held hunting device
