I had originally purchased three of the cheapest arrows I could find at Wal-Mart that would work with my bow. Those being the Easton stalker arrows. I was a little bit hesitant about purchasing them at first on account of the plastic inserts. I had never shot an arrow that had plastic ones all the ones I have ever shot had come with the aluminum ones. I have been shooting them for about a month and only manage to mildly bend one of them when I missed the target with my 50lb recurve bow. I am not that good with it and really only bought it for bow fishing and to mess around with out of curiosity. So after that incident I decided to only use my Compound bow to shoot the "new" arrows. Now I normally shoot across my back yard which is only about 20 yards in length.

How ever I do have access to a relatives yard that has a good 60 or 70 yards worth of clear area I can shoot at. As a back stop just incase I missed I set my target in front of a public restroom building made of lime stone (currently closed for repairs or something). So taking up the opportunity I decided to site in my other two sight pins. First I doubled the length that I had been shooting at my house and set that as my middle pin at around 40 or so yards, I don't own a range finder so I don't really know what range I am shooting at. This was easy as my first shot was dead on and the second after I had adjusted the pin was also dead on.

So this made me a little cocky and I backed up as far as I could go which I am guessing is around 70 or so yards. So I draw back sight up where I think the pin should be placed and let loose. The arrow sails off and flies just over the top of the target and smacks into the limestone wall of the restrooms. Well now I had also not used the arrow that I had previously bent and so I ruined a practically brand new arrow. So my next shot I used the bent one and managed to hit the target on the bottom. I adjusted the pin to the spot above it but refrained from shooting any more at that range. I really can't afford to purchase any more arrows.

This brings me back to the plastic inserts. Now I knew from the first bent arrow that these aluminum Easton arrows were not going to be able to take much abuse. Well when I found the arrow, the first 4 inches of it were bent and the insert was missing. The aluminum had torn and split about 2 inches. After cutting the grass down with my weed eater I found the tip and insert. the once square back that the shaft seated on was now curved where the shaft had expanded and swallowed it. Over all I am pretty impressed with the plastic insert. Unfortunately the arrow is now not long enough to shoot from my compound. And after I hit the nock of the new arrow that I purchased to replace this one I am going to need to take the nock of so that I can still shoot the new one.

By the way my drop away rest works very well with bent arrows they shoot almost as good as the straight ones.