So I am going to try XX75 aluminums. Any of you guys use them? I hurt my shoulder and now I am going to shoot a new bow and new arrows. What has gotten in to me?

Yes...XX75 & XX78.

Yes ,they are very good arrows. Unless one is kinked you can straighten it good as new. >>>-----> Ken

made these cheap -o- jazz up for the Baltimore shoot in May

All the time.

Always have and always will be a fan of aluminum.

yep used camo hunters, legacys, tributes all good

Since the early 1970's, yup.

They are straighter, more consistent and more accurate than all but the very most expensive carbon arrows. And they are much more tuneable with simple hand tools. Smart, very smart. - lbg

Al-you-min-e-um guy here to shoting them since the 80s. Shooting legacy 2016 now.

Yep, shooting XX75 since the early 80's. They are the easiest shafts to build arrows.

JR, you are a rascal of the deepest dye, as Saxton Pope may say. ;) I know you've read all those posts about aluminum arrows over the weeks, years, decades. But anyway, mostly aluminum here since the autumn of 1967.

I love aluminums. I have been trying to collect a good example of all the discontinued camo patterns and colors.

XX75's are what most aluminum shafts are made from these days. As mentioned there are XX78's (harder aluminum) but you would be hard pressed to know the difference with the bows we shoot and you would pay more for them. The differences in straightness between the Jazz, Tributes, Black Gamegetters, and XX75' (because they are all made from XX75 aluminum) you will also be hard press to notice the differences when you are only talking thousandths of an inch difference in straightness. Just depends on how much your want to spend for shafts. The Jazz and Tributes the largest size is 2016's but you also have to buy the inserts for them and they use glue on nocks. DANNY

Shot them years ago would like to give them another try once again.

I shoot them, have since I could afford my first doz in early 70’s. They would be my only choice besides my woods but they are just not as durable as carbons overall. Not familiar with the newer black GG’s. I read they are XX75 and have same tensile strength as the old Autumn Orange shafts but I am a doubting Thomas. I still buy the camo hunters and would buy X7’s but the sizes available are not what I want.

George I am a rascal . Back in my cedar days I used ti rib my buddy's for shooting "pop cans". No I'm making the switch.

I was bare-shaft tuning yesterday, I had some older Beman 2216 arrows (made by Easton, not sure if XX75 or not). Anyway, as it turned out the 2216s were severely under-spined for my setup and the arrows went into the target at quite an angle. Two of my shafts got bent simply by going into the target at a steep angle.... oops!

Since 1974-75 I've used wood and aluminum. About 3 yrs ago I started using carbon some but I always come back to aluminum. Don't use wood much anymore. 2016s and 1916s always hold up good for me..I've never experienced aluminum's being fragile the way some describe them.

goldentrout_one sound's like your bows got some serious draw weight.

Same getters were fragile. xx75 and legacy's.

RymanCat those were the older Green GameGetters and yes those were softer aluminum, same as the Easton Eagles which were softer yet. The newer Black GameGetters have a slicker finish and are XX75 aluminum, but there are limited sizes in them and they are marked with the markings they use for carbon. I know the 500's are 2016's and the 400's are 2117's. The other sizes I don't remember how the other sizes correspond to standard aluminum sizing. DANNY

I shoot the new black ones and they seem pretty solid. The only issue I have is some have a plastic insert for the nock and some have aluminum. You have to watch those plastic ones because they have a tendency to crack and you will have nock failure on release (I know from experience). My issue is I always seem to be between two sizes. I am getting 50# limbs at 31" which shows 400's (2117's) too light and 340's (2315's) to stiff. I have both so we will see what one shoots better.

I'm almost sure the green Gamegetters produced from around 1986 or so are 7075-T9 alloy. This is the same alloy that was used for XX75 Autumn Hunters & XX75 Camo Hunter shafts.

I shot the green gamegetters in the early 1980's. I seem to remember the green gamegetters were not anodized at that time and they may have had a weaker alloy. I just can't remember for sure.

The Eagle hunters were 6010-T9 alloy according to a old Easton catalog I have.

Maybe George or someone else may have more info on this.

Hey George , I bet you remember starting out eith 24srt-x like i did after the cedars

Shoot metal arrows whenever I don't have time or inclination to make up any woodies. xx75, xx78, Legacy, etc...

Remember trying tv antenna tubes, made a nock out of a wooden rod and cork w/ metal rod for an field point, then took feathers off our broken wooden arrows and tied the 2 feathers on. Didn't fly very far on the 25# fiberglass Bear bow, but had fun trying. The TV antenna tubes did make better rockets using my Dad's shotgun powder, just had to be careful to stand clear if one blew up upon the launch, excuse my rambling. Didn't own any tin until I got out of the Navy in 72, it was wood or fiberglass until then.

Thats right the old ones. I bent so many of those it was ridicules. They were soft.

Tell ya another thing you can do is look for them in Craigs list FS now you might find them with vanes so just cut off vanes and clean them up with ajax and wipe down clean and refletch with feathers.

Most times you can get them cheap and a lot of times get the orange ones that are coveted. I have a good supply and no not FS. Those I want to keep around.

You can clear the fletch area like a cap and use whatever glue you want also.

You do not have to pay a lot for aluminum's either. They can be had reasonable.

Made the switch about two months ago for me and my wife. We love them.

Still shooting old 24srt-x aluminum's out of my old Tamerlanes!

2016, and 1816 have always worked great for me.Seems easier to tune my bows with them, but also like ,and shoot wood, and carbon arrows.Even fiberglass at times. Like them all. Nice to have all those choices.

If you can get them in the size you need, X7 and XX75 are the best. Harder alloy than XX75, with just a touch lighter weight.

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