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Originally Posted by Jumile  I view AFB as being a modern upgrade to LB, so - if I were to shoot it - I wouldn't consider using anything other than wooden arrows.
And before anyone berates me for linking AFB and LB, have a read about how the modern AFB came about. See American flatbow (Wikipedia), for example.  |
Respectfully, if you're OK with a modern upgrade to LB why not a modern upgrade to cedar? Today's AFBs have high tech carbon, fibreglass, plastic and "un-natural" woods like Diamondwood in their construction with limbs designed using computer programmes to determine the fastest possible limb profiles in order to produce the highest performance possible. They may share the traditional spirit of the longbow but that's about it. Carbon or aluminium shafts only help to make the most out of all these performance upgrades that you've paid for.
Personally I'd like to see a more progressive attitude to competitive AFB which recognises the difference between high performance modern bows (by allowing whatever arrows you shoot best with) and classic bows (non-glass backed) using wooden shafts.