Any experiences, good or bad, to share??

Thank You

I shoot the traditionals and like them. Seem to like a wide range of draw weights..

LOVE THEM!!!!

They are fantastic shafts.

I just wish I could get them in a heavy enough spine without them weighing so much.

Rick

Love them. They are my exclusive hunting shafts (Traditional Lights) shooting from 48# to 54# bows(LB or Rcrv) and a 29.5" to 30" arrow.

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Can you buy them from other sites or just from Lancaster and directly through them? I shot them for quite a few years but then the price got out of hand. Shawn

Dont get caught up in the hype. Just a waste of money IMO. Your A$H is not going to like them either. Stick with the parallel carbons.

Trevor, no hype at all. They work very well guys just don't know how to tune them to their bows. Shawn

I've shot them for a dozen years or more - Trad Lites are really tough; Nitro Stingers are a poor substitute.

Their Achilles' Heel is the nock end; hit something hard and the front end will be fine, but the nock can drive straight in and split the shaft. After that, I've glued nocks in place with CA, which works brilliantly right up 'til it doesn't. Break the nock and the shaft is toast.

One of the guys here sent me some aluminum inserts to glue in instead; then you use something like Duco to glue on a standard nock. I'm not sure those are still available, though. If they are, GET SOME!

Set up that way, a dozen of these could last almost indefinitely.

Mine are cut 27 3/4" BOP, and they are over-spined for all of my bows ( which are all 50 or 55 at 28 inches". But I never noticed that until I got some slow motion photography off of my phone. So now I'm experimenting with some added point weight to soften them up a bit.

My only gripe with them was the nocks popping out a lot, even just shooting 3D targets. This was years ago so they may have fixed that by now.

I used to shoot them and Loved them, Traditional, Traditional Light, and Heavyweight shaft they don't make anymore. They do have a new heavyweight shaft I am interested in. I shot them in the early 2000's when they first came out, they got hard to find and I went back to aluminum's. 3 Rivers has them now.But they are great durable shafts, they have a collar for them now that saves the knocks.

If I am not shooting woodies, traditional lites have always been my carbon. They are very durable, and can be used between a large gap of spines, and I love a tapered arrow. It has never been a waste of money for me.

Very bad arrows. extremely crooked.

"Very bad arrows. extremely crooked."

This is the second time today I've heard someone say that carbons can be crooked, and, I have never heard that before. The saying I have heard is that they are either straight or broken.

Would someone, anyone, elaborate on the straightness of carbons, please.

I have used them a lot. My experience has had me thinking I'll never use anything but the AD to I'll never use them again. I'm not sure where I stand at the moment. The nocks do piss me off. The arrows never break. Straightness has improved. The last batch was perfect. I have been playing with smaller diameter and EFOC arrows recently and see them penetrating much deeper in the targets. The ad trad is large diameter but so are wood shafts and those work! I just got a new bow last week and haven't tried AD arrows on it. I think I'll go do that now.

I shoot the Nitro Stingers for years out of high speed compounds and had no issues tuning with these shafts. The speed of the compound would of showed problems in straightness as well as a shooting machine. We had no issues with these shafts at all and used to sell dozens of them.

I use the arrow dynamic lights Only on my hunting arrows wth Grizzly R W single bevel heads 175 grn & full length arrow 52# Bow has worked great for me for years !!!

That sounds like a formidable arrow, HBK...

And that doe certainly was impressed!

I wonder how mine would take to a hefty blade like that... Probably not quite as much weight as I'd need, though, because I believe you've got some long arms...

I had some about 8 years ago. They were very inconsistent. Some inserts would spin and others wouldn't fit into the shaft. Nocks we're weak and crooked. I thought they were way overpriced and haven't tried them again since.

I've been shooting them for several years and have been satisfied with them overall. I will agree about the nocks coming out or breaking off. I sort of fixed the situation by not glueing the nocks in. If they broke off I can get the broken stub out with a bent paper clip then replace. Along the same line does anybody know the size of Easton Uni bushings that will fit the Trad Lites??

The nocks are a pain in the backside i always buy extras when i order arrows other then that i realy like the arrows and have confidence in them for a long time now !!!

Matt you might be suprised at how heavey a broadhead you can use or get by wth when you only shoot 20yrds or so !!!

Wild Bill, carbon shafts can come out of the manufacturing process, bent from the day they were born. If QA is poor at the manufacturer, you will get brand new, bent, carbon shafts.

However, once you get one that is verified straight, then yes, it becomes true again, "Carbons, they're either straight or broken."

I have handled literally thousands upon thousands of carbon arrows and have never ever had a bent one. Some with straightness of .006 but no one shoots well enough to notice that. Even the new shafts from China on fleabay have been straight, spine not so close but straight. Shawn

I want to try some. I'm shooting a bear takedown, 52lb @ 28 (i draw 29.5"), using 250 grain points, 10 strand sbd skinny string. Which shaft?

KStframer, depends on which type you get. The Trad wood grains run a little heavier in spine. I was using those with similar specs to yours and found them to be too stiff. I only had about 175 grains up front though. There are so many variables, your best bet is getting a test kit of 2 or 3 different spines and playing with length and point weight.

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