When I was a kid, my first bow was a little fiberglass long bow. Now my dad was a hardcore

purest. He really believed that anything invented after about 1900 was hardly worth looking at, at least in the field of archery and firearms.

And so I grew up shooting that little bitty longbow and then graduated into a bare recurve that my dad kind of passed down to me and eventually

grew into shooting a pretty nice custom recur for a while and then went to a compound

and competitive archery but I remember reading as a kid magazines with Chuck Adams

stories in them and looking at the aluminum arrows because all mine were wood shafts right and

reading about his comments on arrow design and so forth and thinking man that really is like space agy think

it think of it making an arrow shaft out of aluminum right and I remember when my

brother who was a little bit more of a rebel against the purest thing

than I was early on bought a batch of aluminum aeroshafts and my dad was appalled right?

That was my first impression impression the second was how much more

consistent they were than our little Port Orford Cedar aeroshafts and

aeroeevolution has continued in leaps and bounds in the years since.

That probably dates me a little more than I should admit.

But here's the cool thing.

On the line with me today, I've got Gary Cornum of Easton Archer and he's going to talk us through some of the great advancements and the pros and cons of various elements of the arrow shaft.

Gary, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for having me.

Well, I appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedule this morning.

So you're with Easton Archery,

which is out of my native state of Utah.

Do you mind for listeners unfamiliar with you, do you mind just kind of sharing a little bit about yourself and your background in hunting and and the archery sports?

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