When you are looking for a way to improve your bow shooting performance the answer may be a bow stabilizer. Choosing a stabilizer might be a difficult job because the best bow stabilizer may not necessarily be the best bow stabilizer for your particular circumstances or for the bow that you use.
The bow stabilizer performs a couple of important roles and both of them will have an influence on the shooting accuracy of the bow. With the tremendous speeds that are possible from compound bows these days, there is a lot of force being generated when the bowstring is released. A good proportion of that force is passed on to the arrow, a lot more is no and it’s this force that can cause problems without a bow stabilizer.
One of the off putting parts of shooting a compound bow is the hand shock that can be experienced upon release of the arrow. This hand shock is caused by the energy wave in the form of vibrations along the frame of the bow. Those vibrations are passed on to the only thing touching the bow at the time which happens to be the shooter’s hand. By attaching a bow stabilizer to the frame of the bow you are giving those energy waves somewhere else to go other than your hand. The stabilizer takes those waves and dampens them.
An additional job of the bow stabilizer is to reduce the noise that is produced by the bow. A vibrating bow is going to make quite a bit of noise when the arrow is released and this is not good for the stealthy hunter. Muffling that noise is a bow stabilizer, increasing the possibility for a second shot.
Weight is another factor that is brought to the bow by the stabilizer. Compound bows are being made increasingly light weight and this can cause problems with control as the bow can buck from side to side or twist slightly reducing accuracy for the next shot. A bow stabilizer straightens up that action allowing the bow to fall directly to the target.
A bow stabilizer is not mandatory for a compound bow but the novice archer will definitely benefit by attaching one to the frame.
