Hunters tall and small rejoice. Matthews Archery received slightly extra inclusive for 2025. I do know, most of you don’t have to fret about it. However the truth is, a good variety of archers (like me) have a extremely exhausting time discovering bows that match. That’s a part of the rationale that I’m stoked to put in writing in regards to the 2025 Matthews Archery lineup.
The road consists of the LIFT X, LIFT XD, and LIFT RS. These related fashions showcase modern applied sciences to boost tuning precision, sturdiness, and, most significantly, shooter customization.
“The LIFT X continues to push the envelope of bow expertise,” mentioned Brad Treu, Mathews’s Vice President of Gross sales & Advertising. He added that the LIFT X is the model’s “most versatile searching system thus far.”
Every year, new bows hit the market, all of which promise to be the most effective that’s ever taken to the sector. What jumps out at this explicit GearJunkie is the span of shooter sizes accommodated by this launch. The LIFT X covers the common hunter sizes, whereas the LIFT XD provides draw lengths as much as 33.5″.
After which there’s the LIFT RS. As a small-framed bowhunter, I’m continually turning down bow assessments due to my painfully quick draw. Most smaller however nonetheless hunt-capable bows can solely shrink to accommodate a 24″ draw size, simply over-stretching my 23.5″ draw.
It’s like an indication from the bow-hunting gods {that a} bow has hit the market with my initials on it and precisely my fairly uncommonly shrimpy draw size. I’m going to fake it was made only for me. Shhhhhhh, don’t wreck it.
Sufficient of my delusions of grandeur …
Let’s take a look at the bows.
LIFT X
The flagship bow is the LIFT X, designed to supply exact tuning and customization for bowhunters. It has Limb Shift Know-how (LST), permitting archers to micro-adjust the limb channel width with out a bow press, optimizing limb steadiness and cargo for environment friendly tuning.
The ARC7 Limb Know-how ensures enhanced sturdiness and effectivity, whereas the BOND Grip System offers an incredible grip with a textured rubber floor for improved traction. You may seize a brand new LIFT X in both 29.5″ or 33″ axle-to-axle lengths.
That is the improve to the immensely in style LIFT, launched final 12 months.
Specs:
- Value: $1,359+
- Axle-to-axle: 29.5″ or 33″
- Brace peak: 6.5″
- IBO ranking: As much as 348 fps
- Draw weights: 55-80 lbs.
- Draw lengths: 24.5-30″
- Let-off: 80%, 85%
- Bodily weight: 3.99 lbs.
- Cam: SwitchWeight X
LIFT XD
Tailor-made for long-draw archers, the LIFT XD accommodates draw lengths as much as 33.5 inches and has a 6.75-inch brace peak. It incorporates the outsized SwitchWeight X+ Cam, delivering speeds as much as 363 fps. The LST and ARC7 Limb Know-how are additionally featured on this bow, making certain the identical tuning and limb sturdiness discovered within the LIFT X.
That is the bow for all these size archers who need to duck beneath doorways and may at all times attain the highest shelf.
Specs:
- Value: $1,469+
- Brace peak: 6.75″
- IBO ranking: As much as 363 fps
- Axle-to-axle: 33″
- Draw weights: 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75 lbs.
- Draw lengths: 32-33.5″
- Let-off: 80% or 85%
- Bodily weight: 4.31 lbs.
- CAM: SwitchWeight X
LIFT RS
The LIFT RS (reinsert my delusions once more) caters to archers preferring a compact design, with a 27.75″ axle-to-axle size and speeds as much as 353 fps. Weighing simply 3.92 kilos, it helps draw weights from 41 to 80 kilos. With draw lengths between 23.5″ and 29″, it’s versatile for numerous archers, however let’s be actual: the little guys are giddy about this one.
The LST and ARC7 Limb Applied sciences are additionally featured, together with the BOND Grip System for that stable grip. It’s a slick little bow with all of the bells and whistles.
“Mathews made a bow that matches me?! Holy buckets. Wait … and it has my initials on it?! My checking account won’t ever get well from this,” says Rachelle Schrute, GearJunkie Hunt & Fish Editor.
Specs:
- Value: $1,359+
- Brace peak: 5.5″
- IBO ranking: As much as 353 fps (343 @ 29″)
- Axle-to-axle: 27.75″
- Draw weight: Commonplace limbs: 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80 lbs. Light-weight Limbs: 41, 45, 49, 52, 56, 60 lbs.
- Draw lengths: 23.5-29″
- Let-off: 80% or 85%
- Bodily weight: 3.92 lbs.
- CAM: SwitchWeight X
Preliminary Impressions
After I relax about my very particular giddiness towards the 2025 bows, I’ll be capable of converse a bit extra rationally. Plus, I’ve but to see these bows in particular person, a lot much less have them in hand.
If I’m being blunt, Mathews tends solely to launch the most effective of the most effective, and I can’t think about this shall be any completely different. It’s exhausting to high fashionable bows, so the small tweaks and enhancements go a great distance. Will they go far sufficient to persuade folks to spend money on one other bow this 12 months? It’s exhausting to say.
My Mathews TX-5 from half a decade in the past or extra shoots simply in addition to my latest bow, so convincing folks to take the monetary leap to a different new bow may be a tricky one.
As for me, hopefully, Santa is listening and overlooking my lesser deeds of the 12 months as a result of that LIFT RS in Earth with tan/brown particulars would look fairly beautiful beneath the tree (hint-hint).
