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Big un’s! Well done!

Alright gents, what target do want?

My love affair with the new Matthews continues. After practicing out to 60 yards a couple weekends ago, I had Jeff at Niagara Outdoors cut me some 5 mm Easton Axis 340’s. Moving into 20 yards after shooting at 60 makes it seem oh so easy. First three in the same hole. Now I need to find a target that can stop my arrows!

Nice Atlantic!

Since there are legal length restrictions on the different species, it might be a good idea to practice catch and release until you learn them by sight. There are some good color plates you can look at online but each fish species can change color based on time of the year so it can get confusing.

Nice stack of fish.

word of caution on those style of swivels, they will open up on a large fish. Look for coastlock or duolock swivel styles.

I consider the no-cam. The only thing I don’t like about my VXR is more of an indictment on large cam bows. The big wheels make pulling the bow back like starting a ten speed on a hill. The initial draw is harder until you get to the letoff phase - which is a dream to hold. My shoulder is not liking the new technology. This weekend I did a bunch of shooting off my buddy’s deck. I found the reduced effect of gravity on the downward angled shots takes 5 yards off the optimizer sight algorithm so at 30 yards, I would place the sight on 25 yards and my arrows end up 4” low which is what I want for whitetails. Crazy to be shooting at 60 yards. I feel I would need the smaller pin to shoot beyond that distance for western hunts. No way shooting at a twitchy whitetail at 60 yards is ethical IMO. The deer would have to have its head down and feeding relaxed to even consider.

Another thing I did to my cannons was change from the stock cannon two prong terminus to a Minn Kota receptacle termination. Better connection, heavier gauge wire.

Sahlens on a toasted bun.

I like hot dogs cooked on the grill.

Next up are arrows. So what do Matthews bows like to eat? I am a fan of Easton Axis 5mm arrows.

So in setting up my bow I realized my old style of pins and the hindsight system that had served me so well does not work on the new riser designs. I picked up a HHA Optimizer single pin sight and got her dialed in. So cool the algorithm system that has you shoot at 20 yards then 60 yards to figure out the coinciding sticker to place on sight which then allows you to shoot out to 80 yards by dialing in the site to the known target distance was an epiphany! I have never shot past 40 yards and with the new technology, I was placing 5” groups at 60 yards with junk waste arrows and a crosswind. My eyes have been opened.

Could someone post the tournament results for us slugs stuck at home? Thanks.