all right guys 2022 bow set up uh this is the matthews v3x i shoot this bow phenomenally taken
it on three hunts so far i've killed a whitetail javelina a bunch of animals in hawaii i love this
bow i shoot it so well so i'm just going to tell you a little bit about what i'm running and the
specs and we'll be off to the races so this is the v3x from matthews the 29. i like shorter bows
just for packability i don't like packing bigger bows i don't like the 33s there's pros and cons to
both but i feel that the shorter bow is is worth the trade-off to have a little bit more forgiving
of a string angle in the back country so i always go for the shorter bow my personal opinion yours
may differ so i have a stabilizer on here this is a cutter stabilizer eight incher i don't have
a sidebar or anything like that i like to keep my bows sleek i like to keep them as light as
possible because after you get all your components on them they're heavy enough they're heavy what's
cool about the v3x is the bridge lock and this low pro quiver so i have this montana black gold
ascent i got the dovetail it slides right in there with this new matthews low pro quiver and this bow
it naturally with that stab on there wants to fall forward there's no leaning left or or right
obviously those of the past you know theoretically tend to want to lean more to the right because of
the quiver and the sight and all the components hanging off the right side of the bow but with
the bridge lock you just you don't get that and so once again simple eight inch stabilizer
one thing that i keep in mind when i select a stabilizer is i want a stabilizer that's going to
protect my sight when i'm on a stalk meaning i can set my limb pocket on the ground and my stabilizer
on the ground and my sight is not going to hit the ground so when i'm stalking i can do that if i'm
crawling and i'm going like this i want my sight protected in my opinion as a bow hunter that's the
biggest thing when it comes to a stabilizer for me for most bow shots you don't need you know a
heavy stabilizer especially if you're shooting under 50 yards that's my opinion once again
i have this matthews ultra rest integrate this goes on the back of the riser once again
it's all in line via this picatinny rail the integrate by qad i am a big cable driven rest
with full containment fan i don't like limb driven rests because i don't like that extra
string that's something else that can get caught on something and break or get cut or pull my
rest out of time or cause a problem somewhere once again my personal opinion i like the shorter
the cord the better as far as i'm concerned and so that's why i always run a cable driven rest
arrows for the last 10 years i've i've really modified my arrow selection i've shot from micro
diameter arrows to the old standard size aeroshafts and even aluminum back before
carbon arrows came out and there's pros and cons to all of them i feel like nowadays the most
important component in an arrow is the inserts the accessories of the arrow what i like about micro
diameter arrows is usually you have a two piece insert you have an insert that goes inside the
carbon and then you have this over cert that goes on top of that and slides down over the carbon
that's going to give you a lot of protection a lot of toughness up front and on top of that
these micro sized arrows micro diameter sized arrows they have a thick carbon wall they're going
to be thicker than a standard size arrow carbon wall because they still need to maintain their
stiffness and weight and the diameter's smaller so you have to put that carbon somewhere and so
the smaller diameter the thicker carbon wall that you need and so that's why i also like a micro
diameter arrow is because you got thick carbon i don't like a lot of weight up front i've got about
50 grains of insert up front i don't like steel it's good for toughness but i feel like a good
aluminum insert with an insert and the oversert is enough strength to do what it needs to do
and protect the base of that broadhead once again steel is superior because it's steel
it's way stronger but i don't like that all that weight up front once again personal preference
uh this is a 430 grain arrow this is what i'm going to run this year it's a vector zmr
those the guys over there they they built me this arrow to shoot this year and i told him 430 grains
and it's a little bit lighter than what i'm used to or what i normally do kind of bumping back 10
years ago i was hunting with a 400 grain arrow and i went all the way up to a 560 grain arrow and now
i'm back down to a 430 grain arrow there's a few reasons for that the first one is i tend to like
a flatter trajectory i have a single pin slider i always just run my site on 30 yards i keep my
side on 30 yards 20 yards i just have to hold two inches low 40 yards i need to hold six inches high
a lighter arrow is going to have that flatter trajectory especially you know within 50
and that's going to make my life easier i don't i just don't have the arc that i would have
in a 560 grain arrow that i shot just as recently as two years ago
so that's important to me when i'm shooting a single pin slider
another big factor is broadhead accuracy even with helical veins i found that i wasn't getting
the accuracy that i demanded out of my setup at distance this is 60 plus yards with a a cut on
contact bigger blade uh broadhead uh plain and simple i just felt like my my groups were just
opening up a little bit once i got out past 60. and a big part of that is too high of arrow speeds
that's over 300 feet per second is what i'm talking i like to have my arrow within that 294
to 300 feet per second you can you can go too fast absolutely you can get sporadic aeroflights but
what i have found over a lot of testing is with these evolution jekylls and the hyde
they're a low profile broadhead and even at those higher speeds i still get superior accuracy
so that was something that encouraged me to go back down a little bit lighter once again
430 grains now this arrow comes out of this bow at 305 feet per second that's that's fast and
i did that for not only the flat trajectory but it's a little harder for those axis deer or any
deer or any animal to duck the string when that arrow's getting there faster so that's just a
little factor that i considered with going with a lighter arrow so these are just a few things that
i keep in mind when i select my bow setup this is my my weapon for the fall i feel so confident
with this i have some kills under my belt already and and that's what it is to build that confidence
is that range time and then get out there and get hunting get some harvest under your belt
you get that confidence and i feel better than ever going into the fall with this bow set up