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I’ve got a dozen of the old outsert carbon arrows laying around and I was thinking about fixing them up. They have an outsert on the front which makes them almost indestructible. It’s sort of a combination insert and external footing in one. They are also thick walled and small diameter like the Axis arrows.
They fell out of favor with compound shooters when the insert arrows came along. Using inserts allows for shorter arrows since the inserts don’t affect how an arrow comes across an arrow rest. But for traditional archers shooting off the shelf, it’s not a negative.
Axis arrows are sort of a reinvention of the original pultruded carbon shafts, just with inserts instead of outserts. The old arrows sure were a lot cheaper…