hey guys dan pickar here with eastman's bowhunting journal today we're looking at the matthews v3x
new for 2022. now this may look similar to last year's v3 which it is there's some similarities
the risers machined a little bit different and we have three big new features which i'm very excited
about so let's jump right in and take a look they made a 29 and a 33 this year i love bows that are
28 to 30 inches i like how compact they are and usually better performance than a longer bow
theoretically a little less forgiving but i find all these bows pretty forgiving so i prefer uh
prefer the shorter bows so this is the 29 the v3 x 29 the 29 has a six inch brace height uh the 33
has a six and a half inch uh hence more of uh the forgiveness so that's that ibo is up to 340. man i
mean it's a performance bow similar uh performance as last year's v3x is my hunch we're going to
shoot it through the chronograph here and see just a nice sleek streamlined bow with new features
three big new features this year uh for the v3x which are pretty cool uh the the first one which
we haven't really seen before is the bridgelock site technology this machine portion out in
the middle of the riser to accept a dovetail type site i purposely put this traditionally
bracket mounted style site on here just to see if it would work for you guys that are still
going to use that type of a mounted site and i may too we'll see but i wanted to make sure
my clearance wasn't an issue with this new for 2022 low pro quiver keeps your arrows and your
quiver extremely close to the bow which i love but there is a little arrow contact but
you know i set it all up and i went hunting with it last week and i shot a whitetail with it and
it didn't rattle it didn't cause any vibration or noise issues with these arrows resting on
the bracket of this externally a traditionally mounted bow sight my clearance wasn't an issue
with this new for 2022 low pro quiver from matthews as well 56 percent closer to your bow
just with the intention of eliminating you know being out of balance just that side you
know balance that kicks you out of balance so you know hopefully you can eliminate
uh the need for a kicker if you're running uh you know a kicker stabilizer uh down below there so
everything's tighter closer more in line with the intention to have this bow be balanced with less
need for weights on the exterior so we have the bridge lock technology we have the lowepro quiver
and then lastly the really cool thing that i think is is very handy for especially guys that don't
have a bow press at home is the new bow press system that they made and basically you can see
this nub here on your cam and this nub here on your cam and you can hook up their bow press and i
will grab that this stay of field system bow press which you're going to look at and be like what
but it's just basically a bow string that's designed to lock in to each peg on the cam
and allow you to take your string off and put a new one on if you had to in the field so it's
pretty simple let's go through it real quick the first thing you need to do is to back your
limb bolts out four turns four full terms turns from flush to get enough pressure off your limbs
and then all you need to do is take one end of the press and hook it on the loop
and then you take your left hand and you're just mashing down on the string and the cable
and then hook it on the other end and then let go so that takes the tension off your string
and you can fully remove your string slick as you please i like to say in the field and it's about
as easy as it's going to get i don't even think you know when i'm working on these bows i don't
think i'm going to come in to the office here and have to put it in a bow press i can just do this
at my desk with this stay a field system if i have to put a peep in if i have to change my string out
or whatever it might be now you're still going to have to you know tune your bow and make sure
you're not out of time if if you change your string but it could be a quick fix
in the field for you that could save you if you needed that quick fix
so that's pretty cool okay so let's say i want to put the string back on i just grab the bow string
make sure we're all good we're back on the string tracks and then i'm just pulling down with my left
hand and that takes that tension off i could take that bow press off and then just slowly release it
and yeah we're good to go stay a field system pretty cool technology just making it easy for
archers to work on your bow anytime anywhere any place very cool so the next thing i want
to look at is this uh sight bridge lock system i'm going to take this side off and we're going to put
the spot hog in there and see how it looks and see how easy it is to set up so first thing i'm
going to take my arrows out the other cool thing i would like to mention are these the
arrows that i was shooting out of my v3 for last year and literally all i had to do is look at my
qad ultra rest integrate and look at the hashes the ticks where i had my rest set up on on the v3
and i set the rest to the same tick so i'm one above center and then my left and right is one
in and i took those exact same settings i put those into the ultra rest on the v3x and i
shot my same arrow that i shot out of my v3 and i broadhead tuned it and it tuned perfectly so i had
this bow ready to hunt in probably 10 minutes uh so that's how similar these rises are and i think
my v3 was the 27 so it was the shorter one this is the 29 so theoretically this might be a little bit
you know slower arrow speeds just because it's a longer ata but obviously it's not
enough to affect it and we will find out through the chronograph later
so get all my arrows out of the quiver and all i'm doing is i want to take this side off
so i'll whip that off real quick like i said i did this on purpose i shoot black gold sights
quite a bit i like spot hogs too but i wanted to see if i could still shoot a black gold sight
with this new lowepro quiver because the arrows are so much closer to your riser in the quiver
every bow comes with this little screw for your bridge lock site you take your dovetail
from your spot hog and you slide it on in and there is a spot for a set screw
in the riser
okay
get my correct allen wrench for that
and you just run that all the way in like you would
on the mounting bracket that comes with all spot hogs it's just that set screw that locks it in
there you go so now
you have that in line sight right into the middle of your riser i can definitely feel
just right off it doesn't want to lean right like it just wants to fall forward so i truly
believe that makes a big difference let's uh put some arrows in here and check out our clearance
oh yeah obviously i mean in this portion where a site used to be
is is not a clearance issue anymore
and these are right from the field i even have some dirt on some of these i got a
field tip here because i shot that buck and it broke my arrow so
these are the aerotech mt300s by the way about 480 grains
and uh i shot him this year i liked him
okay so arrow's back in the quiver so obviously no contact now so there's the bridge lock technology
with that spot hog in there and once again i mean that bow doesn't even want to tip right
i think with that side out front and that cutter stabilizer it just it just wants to
fall forward so talk about balance a bow that just you know it wants to be where it's supposed to be
when it comes to shoot ability uh it's just gonna make you a more accurate shot
down the road so for the chronograph here i'm just cranking my limb bolts back down
flush to the bottom i want a full 70 pounds just remember to do this if you're gonna use the
sas system for putting your peep in or whatever don't forget to crank your limb bolts back down
bows are always more efficient and they're meant to tune with the limb bolts bottomed out so
i mean yeah you can adjust your poundage by your limb bolts a little bit but always try to get
the correct mod for your poundage and draw length because
that's that's why matthews makes them is your draw length poundage and let off those each mod
is built for maximum efficiency that's what sets them apart and that's why you'll see these bows
be so much faster than say another bow company that is kind of a universal
you know cam system they do it for a reason because it increases
efficiency with these matthews okay all right guys we're here like the next day we've had
chronograph issues with this thing uh it's really finicky to lighting and these leds
through here to get an accurate reading so i've shot not hundreds but a couple dozen arrows
through this thing uh to get an accurate reading and getting it dialed indoors and it's still
having some issues but uh i know the number uh that this bow is shooting with the 480 grain arrow
so i'm confident that the speed is is accurate you can see this this thing's flickering
it's uh 285 feet per second is what we're getting so let's just see if we can replicate it
286 there you go
285 286 feet per second is the magic number 284 i'm happy with that
definitely 285 feet per second is what i've been averaging so there you have it thanks
for watching this bow review once again the 2022 matthews v3x awesome bow i can't wait
to do a little more hunting with it in this next coming year be sure you guys like and subscribe
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