Steady and Quiet Shooting with the Best Bow Stabilizer

Quick release on a bow stabilizer is a pretty useful feature. When you want to pack your bow into it’s case or even transport it anywhere, normally you’ll have to remove the stabilizer. This can be pretty annoying when it uses a standard screw attachment mechanism. Quick release however makes that removal a simple as a half / three quarter twist and it pops right off. That’s a major timesaver and hassle gone.

Quick release mechanisms can be added to many popular manufacturers, but they’re usually a $20 to $40 additional purchase. In this case it’s nice then that Trophy Ridge have included that useful feature as part of the basic hitman package.

Alongside the stabilizer itself the package also includes personalization o-rings that allow you to add a small splash of color to the otherwise black and carbon effect that the rest of this stabilizer comes in. If you have a nice camo pattern on your bow, this isn’t going to blend as nicely as some of your other accessories however as it only comes in that black / carbon design (at time of writing).

If you like the Hitman and want to take your stabilization to greater levels, Bear Archery also produce a kit that contains a dial combo stabilizer (also with quick release).

One of the best stabilizers on the market in recent years comes from Trophy Ridge. This is available in a compact 6″ for hunting, and a longer 9″ length for target shooters. It has been designed to be ultra light to make it good for all users and also has an aerodynamic design that reduces wind resistance. This greatly reduces the effects of wind being able to move the bow. Useful when you’re hunting or shooting outdoors in windy conditions.

Black, camo (realtree apg) and pink styles are on offer. Those skins cover the copolymer makeup of this one. Honestly, I don’t really know what Ballistix Copolymer is exactly comprised of but apparently it makes this stabilizer 25% lighter than one made from aluminium without sacrificing anything in durability. That’s a real bonus for all the user base as keeping weight down is essential in a bow you may be holding for a long time.

Another plus point for this is the inclusion of 2x 1 ounce weights allowing you to change the feel of the stabilization. It also comes with a braided wrist sling.

This is a small stabilizer focuses on vibration dampening. In fact, NAP uses proprietary dampening technology to silence your bow as well as any other model on the market. Your query won’t hear your shot, and perhaps more importantly, it’ll be more accurate.

In addition to its silencing ability, the Apache come with unique versatility. You can purchase the stand-alone 5-inch stabilizer, or you can get the 8-inch version, which is actually the 5-inch with a 3-inch detachable carbon fiber accessory bar. 

Considering all these features, we recommend this stabilizers for hunters on the move. If you like to still hunt in deep woods or from portable blinds, the compact size and adjustability can add an edge to your hunt. And of course, you can even get it in camo.

A coiled / spiral design from LimbSaver that uses their proprietary NAVCOM material to dampen vibration. NAVCOM is a rubbery elasticy type material that is designed to absorb vibration through the audio frequency spectrum from 10 to 30,000hz. It’s not only used in bow stabilizers but has other applications in sports, recreation, aerospace and consumer electronics.

The S-Coil stabilizer has apparently been sold over 1 million times and is the most popular selling product ever made by LimbSaver. It’s not hard to see why, the price point is excellent, these are very affordable. This isn’t the prettiest thing you’ll ever see attached to a bow in any of the available color combinations. It does look like a big rubber coated spring.

The spiral design is claimed to help reduce not only vibration, but recoil and bow jump, to give you a smoother feel and noise reduction in your shot. This one only comes in a 4.5″ length which is pretty short in comparison to other stabilizers. 

SAS (Soutland Archery Supply) have developed a name for creating some really good archery products at affordable price points.

They’ve managed to do it again with this simple but effective aluminium bow stabilizer. This is precision machined from aluminium so it is light and strong. It’s available in plain black or camo finishes and comes in 3 lengths 5″, 8″ and 11″ to to suit your preference and usage.

The weighting isn’t adjustable however it’s a relatively inexpensive route into adding a stabilizer to your bow to help you discover stabilization benefits in general.

Bee Stinger are one of the industry leaders in archery stabilizers. They make stabilizers for both hunting and target archery. This particular model comes with 3x 1 ounce weights that you can use to fine tune the weight and balance of your bow to your exact liking. 

Inside this stabilizer are a series of components designed to dampen harmonics and resonation from the string release. This helps make your shot both quieter and easier on your bow hand.

This stabilizer also comes in a wide range of sizes, 6″, 8″, 10″ and a wide range of colors. You can get this in sandstorm, pink, 12 different ones to be exact. Something for everyone, and some of the color choices are named to match with the skins of popular bows. However, you may find even though your bow is ‘Lost Camo’ that the stinger interpretation of this skin isn’t an exact match. Maybe that’s down to copyrights or just lack of inter-company communication. It’s going to be similar, just don’t expect them to be exactly the same.

This is a well tried and well tested stabilizer used by many bowhunters. You won’t go wrong adding 8″ of stinger to your setup.

Now we move up the range into things a little more on the professional and expensive range. Stokerized stabilizers are probably twice or three times the price of other stabilizers in this list. Some people swear by them and will tell you they’re the only thing that worked to really deaden their bow.

This carbon body stabilizer includes rubber harmonic dampeners developed by Mathews. A dampener is designed to simply absorb vibration and not add much weight to the stabilizer. These are purposely tuned to dampen a high degree (75% claimed) of residual vibration from your bow. ​

One thing is for sure, if you’re patriotic then you’d be purchasing a well machined, solid product from an all American company.

If you want to record your hunt or shooting session to share or keep why not combine bow stabilization with a camera? There’s no better place to mount a camera than out front of the bow as it won’t interfere with your bows natural balance.

This is a one touch, low light, waterproof, rechargeable and shock-resistant . This is a 12mp HD camera that will record in full HD (1080p @ 30fps). The lens is designed to deal with fish-eye and make the pictures look like what you see yourself.

In this particular package you get the tactacam inside a flat black bow stabilizer. This is not going to be anywhere as good as a standard stabilizer designed to do nothing else but stabilize. But if you’re able to shoot without your stabilizer whilst you record, then this is going to be the ideal position for a camera to capture every second of the action.