Optimize your bow's balance and reduce torque with our stabilizer weight recommendation tool.
Enter your bow's mass in pounds, how far its balance point sits from the grip pivot in inches, your stabilizer bar's length in inches, and the end weight mounted on it. The tool reports how much of the bow's tipping torque your setup cancels.
The physics is plain lever arithmetic: torque equals weight times lever arm. The bow's torque is its mass times the balance-point offset; the stabilizer's counter-torque is its end weight times bar length. The recommended end weight equals bow torque divided by bar length — which is why doubling the bar length halves the weight you need for the same stabilizing effect.
The torque reduction percentage is the ratio of the two torques, capped at 100%. Reductions of 70% or more rate as a significant balance improvement, 40–70% as moderate, and anything under 40% as minimal — a sign that either more tip weight or a longer bar would change how the bow holds.
The tool divides your bow's torque (bow weight × balance-point offset) by the bar length. For example, a 4.5 lb bow balancing 2 inches from the grip pivot with a 30-inch bar works out to 0.3 lb — about 4.8 oz — of end weight to fully counter the tipping torque.
They trade off exactly: torque is weight times lever arm, so doubling the bar length halves the end weight required for the same counter-torque. A longer, lighter setup achieves the same balance number with less total mass added to the bow.
It is the stabilizer's counter-torque expressed as a share of the bow's own tipping torque, capped at 100%. The tool rates 70% or more as a significant balance improvement, 40–70% as moderate, and under 40% as minimal.