Hunters tall and small rejoice. Matthews Archery acquired somewhat extra inclusive for 2025. I do know, most of you don’t have to fret about it. However the reality is, a good variety of archers (like me) have a extremely laborious time discovering bows that match. That’s a part of the explanation that I’m stoked to jot down in regards to the 2025 Matthews Archery lineup.
The road consists of the LIFT X, LIFT XD, and LIFT RS. These comparable fashions showcase progressive applied sciences to boost tuning precision, sturdiness, and, most significantly, shooter customization.
“The LIFT X continues to push the envelope of bow know-how,” 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 up to now.”
Every year, new bows hit the market, all of which promise to be the most effective that’s ever taken to the sphere. What jumps out at this specific GearJunkie is the span of shooter sizes accommodated by this launch. The LIFT X covers the common hunter sizes, whereas the LIFT XD presents draw lengths as much as 33.5″.
After which there’s the LIFT RS. As a small-framed bowhunter, I’m always turning down bow checks due to my painfully brief 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 faux it was made only for me. Shhhhhhh, don’t wreck it.
Sufficient of my delusions of grandeur …
Let’s have 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 Expertise (LST), permitting archers to micro-adjust the limb channel width with no bow press, optimizing limb steadiness and cargo for environment friendly tuning.
The ARC7 Limb Expertise ensures enhanced sturdiness and effectivity, whereas the BOND Grip System offers a terrific grip with a textured rubber floor for improved traction. You’ll be able to seize a brand new LIFT X in both 29.5″ or 33″ axle-to-axle lengths.
That is the improve to the immensely common LIFT, launched final 12 months.
Specs:
- Worth: $1,359+
- Axle-to-axle: 29.5″ or 33″
- Brace top: 6.5″
- IBO score: 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 top. It incorporates the outsized SwitchWeight X+ Cam, delivering speeds as much as 363 fps. The LST and ARC7 Limb Expertise are additionally featured on this bow, guaranteeing the identical tuning and limb sturdiness discovered within the LIFT X.
That is the bow for all these size archers who should duck beneath doorways and may all the time attain the highest shelf.
Specs:
- Worth: $1,469+
- Brace top: 6.75″
- IBO score: 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 strong 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 better from this,” says Rachelle Schrute, GearJunkie Hunt & Fish Editor.
Specs:
- Worth: $1,359+
- Brace top: 5.5″
- IBO score: As much as 353 fps (343 @ 29″)
- Axle-to-axle: 27.75″
- Draw weight: Customary 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 have the ability to communicate a bit extra rationally. Plus, I’ve but to see these bows in individual, 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 can be any totally different. It’s laborious to prime 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 laborious 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 is likely to be a troublesome 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 pretty beneath the tree (hint-hint).
