About Us
bee stinger
The archery-industry leader in stabilizers and related equipment.
Stabilizers That Perform
We engineer and manufacture the most advanced line of stabilizers and side bars for bowhunting, target archery and 3-D archery on the market. Every stabilizer we make meets our strict standards for superior performance at the range, in world-class competition, and on the hunt. With machined aluminum end caps, stainless steel weights, ultra-rigid 100% carbon rods, and Internal Vibration Adapters you can trust your Bee Stinger to help you acquire your target faster, hold steadier, diminish torque, reduce vibration, and finish on target.
We also offer a wide assortment of weights and vibration dampeners. Not to mention all the mounting hardware needed to configure stabilizers and side rods any way an archer needs to make their best shots better.
Defining Stabilizers
A stabilizer should hold your bow steady both while at full draw and at the time of release while shooting. When an archer is holding at full draw, there are many forces built up in the cables, limbs, and back of the archer, etc. When the arrow is released, these forces change suddenly. These changing forces affect the bow in addition to the flight of the arrow. The job of the stabilizer is to resist the movement of the bow resulting from these forces.
The most common way used in slowing down any objects movement is to make it heavier. If rotational deflection (i.e. torque) was not a factor, the answer would simply be to increase the mass weight of the bow. However, since rotational forces are at play, the weight is much more effective when it is moved away from the center of rotation. This is the very reason tight rope walkers use a very long pole, golf clubs have the head, and the very end of baseball bats are bigger and heavier at one end.
balance and control
The patented design of Bee Stinger has the moments of inertia (the compact disc weight) at the furthest point of attachment from the bow or the “distal end”. Bee Stinger utilizes a very light yet ultra-rigid carbon fiber rod to connect the disc weight to the bow, keeping every mechanical advantage working in the archers’ advantage. The light weight ultra-rigid carbon rod is critical to the system for numerous reasons. If the connecting rod is too heavy, it adds mass weight to the bow but it does not allow the archer to use the weight effectively. In addition, if the rod is weak or the weight is “disconnected” from the rigid bar with rubber, the weight cannot effectively resist the forces exerted on the bow before the arrow has left the string.
This is caused by the flexible rod or rubber attaching the weight having to “load up” (i.e. finish flexing) before the moments of inertia become effective in resisting said forces. Allowing these forces to impact the bow causes a less steady sight picture and a less forgiving bow.
