Jerrod Vila

Stabilizers are synonymous with archery, but especially within the competitive target scene; the hunting side of things has always seemed to slip by the wayside.
Any seasoned bowhunter has more than likely noticed the uptick in the rather elaborate stabilizer systems on some of today’s modern hunting bows. It is just that – a system. I can distinctly remember my first “real” bow as a 12-year-old kid in the mid-’90s, it was a PSE Spirit with a 4-inch rubber stabilizer screwed into the front portion of the riser just below the grip. Like every other typical hunting bow of that era, that was it, we called it good.