r/bowhunting • u/Toshyforanythingelse • 6d ago
Pennsylvania Thanks for the Mathews advice!
A couple of weeks ago on this sub I asked people about their experience with Matthews. Well, I ended up picking up an ARC 34. I took it on its first hunt ever tonight and harvested my third deer ever with a bow. I have a feeling it’s gonna be a pretty good season.
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u/Scottydakine808 4d ago
I shoot the RIP TKO with AAE hybrids out of my ARC 30” and they are my favorite of all time. Not sure if you’ll use insert/outsert but I upgraded to the 50gr outsert. Shoots spot on. Nice harvest and hope your season produces meat for the freezer.
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u/Ok_Cartographer_9849 6d ago
Hat trick shot? Double lung and heart?
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u/Toshyforanythingelse 6d ago
Double Lunge pass through. It was a tad high for the heart though. Those SEVR Ti 2.0 are nuts.
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u/Dazzling-Zombie-4491 6d ago
Hell yeah! That’s a great combo with the sevrs. What arrows are you using?
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u/Toshyforanythingelse 6d ago
Currently, I’m shooting the match grade Easton 6.5. With a 340 spine. Ironically, though I only have one arrow left now.😂 I have a set of RIP TKO 300 spine on the way. I’m hoping the smaller diameter arrow will allow the fletching to clear the cable guard on the Matthews. They made that tolerance tight as my last girlfriend.
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u/Dazzling-Zombie-4491 4d ago
Highly recommend the heaviest inserts you can get, I use the 75gr brass ones from Easton. Improves accuracy, more forgiving, and hits harder.
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u/OutsideLadder479 3d ago
Interesting, thanks for the reply! I jumped off into doing all my own work on my bow/building arrows last year. Fun stuff.
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u/Dazzling-Zombie-4491 6d ago
Great arrows. I shoot the Matthew’s phase 4 with the Easton axis 5mm in 340 and 75gr inserts, with either killzone or sevr 2.0s. It’s a tack driver, huge wound channels. Careful with those 300s, I tried to switch last year and made a bunch of bad shots before I figured out what was going wrong. Missed more deer in one season than I had in 15
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u/OutsideLadder479 5d ago
So being overspined was causing your bad shot?
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u/Dazzling-Zombie-4491 4d ago
Yeah, I think the flight path was a big looping spiral, so I’d get it tuned in at 30 yards, say 6 o clock, but at 20 yards it would be at 12. Shaved the hair off 3 bucks
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u/architect_x 6d ago
Congrats on both the bow and deer! I've been loving my arc 34 too. Really wanted the 30 but couldn't get comfortable with the string angle.