After a 5-year hiatus from vertical bowhunting, Josh Dahlke gets a phone call from a friend that compels him to pick up a compound bow again and prepare for a bucket-list hunt: New Mexico elk.

The Mathews V3 27 has proven to be the ideal compact compound bow.

Mark Melotik scours the swamps of South Carolina for feral hogs with his Mathews V3. It's a suspenseful, arrow-shaking hunt as he stalks into bow range and lets two arrows fly on a couple of tasty wild pigs.