Carbon express nightmare

Bowhunter05 · Jan 30, 2018

I have been wanting to try the carbon express maxima red sd arrows for a while so I bought some. I received the first batch in the mail and upon inspection on my spinner 5 of the 6 arrows were so out of straighteness the arrow wanted to jump off the wheels. I figured I got a bad batch so I had Amazon replace them. I got the new ones in the mail yesterday and immediately noticed they had the same batch numbers as the original ones so I once again checked them and this time 4 of the 6 were seriously bent at the ends in the darker part of the arrow. I emailed carbon express and they are sending me a shipping label so their "arrow tech" can inspect the arrows and if he finds they are bent send me replacements. This whole ordeal has been a disaster and for an arrow that claims they have 1/10000 straighteness this is unacceptable. Anyone wanting to purchase these arrows make sure you check them before you cut and glue them. Maybe I just got a bad batch since they did have the same numbers or maybe they claim to be something they are not. I guess I will find out after CE "inspects" them.

Hondoarcher · Mar 23, 2018

LAST EDITED ON Mar-23-18 AT 09:57PM (MST)[p]I was at the hunt expo in SLC at the Gold Tip booth. They had a spinner there and stacks of arrows from different manufacturers. I put their arrows on the spinner then pulled a fresh carbon express arrow out of a box. Sure enough the Gold tip had no wobble but the Carbon Express did. I tested a couple of others and got the same results.

I shoot carbon express but plan on jumping ship to Gold Tip.

Bowhunter05 · Mar 24, 2018

I couldn't believe how bad these arrows were. I mean they were so badly bent it had to have been a manufacturing issue. I went through two sets from Amazon and both had the same lot number on the arrow so I'm assuming something went wrong while making that batch. It was irritating to have to send them back and have them "inspected" as if they didn't believe me. They ended up telling me only one tested out of tolerance too haha. Wish I still had the video of all of them they were bad. I switched to VAP tko arrows and love them.