Stablizers
05-24-2006, 10:58 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 3
Stablizers
I am new to bow hunting and have just gotten a new bow a rapture. I got pretty much everything on it but a stabilizer and I was wondering one what it does and two if is worth the investment and lastly which do you recommend. Thank you very much for you imput and I think I need to mention that it is for hunting not target shooting.
05-24-2006, 11:44 PM
#2
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Jackson, Missouri
Posts: 7,051
RE: Stablizers
First of all, welcome to Huntingnet!!
I'm gonna try to save myself some typing here and link you toa thread started last week or so by Frank (Pabowhntr) which will address some of your questions very specificaly. It'll also throw in some additional info that's good to know about stabilizers as well. Happy reading!
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1537097
I'm gonna try to save myself some typing here and link you toa thread started last week or so by Frank (Pabowhntr) which will address some of your questions very specificaly. It'll also throw in some additional info that's good to know about stabilizers as well. Happy reading!
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1537097
05-25-2006, 06:38 AM
#4
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 7,876
RE: Stablizers
One thing to think about is the weight they add to the bow. A heavier bow means less recoil, it also is harder to lift and hold up. The right one will cause less movement because it's harder to compensate the bow when your start to loose it , but that happens more quickly with one. You may see a flater arrow with a heavier bow because it will lurch forward less when shot giving more energy to the shaft, but your bow may already be heavy enough. Your question may never be answered as there is a whole world of archers that can't. Best to go to some place where you can screw some on and see if it helps. From experience I'd say you should work on your form fornow. A stabilizer is a fine tuning piece of equipment I'd say after you can shoot 3-4" groups or better @ 30 yrds. Some do help tame a bow though, but there maybe other things that will do a better job, like a heavier arrow.
It does make a difference if you use a heavy bow to practise with and then scale the weight back before the season opens. One reason why guys shoot better after using one for awhile then stop, the muscles weaken and they go back again, or continually use a different onetrying to find the perfect one.
One things for sure, you need a place to put the stuff you've bought to make you a better archer but find doesn't work or you just didn't need it.
It does make a difference if you use a heavy bow to practise with and then scale the weight back before the season opens. One reason why guys shoot better after using one for awhile then stop, the muscles weaken and they go back again, or continually use a different onetrying to find the perfect one.
One things for sure, you need a place to put the stuff you've bought to make you a better archer but find doesn't work or you just didn't need it.
05-25-2006, 08:14 AM
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Jackson, Missouri
Posts: 7,051
RE: Stablizers
One things for sure, you need a place to put the stuff you've bought to make you a better archer but find doesn't work or you just didn't need it.
Omigosh!!! Truer words have never been spoken!
I'm in the process of converting a whole room downstairs right now into my "archery room" which will store just such stuff!
