---
title: "How to Balance Your Hunting Bow"
description: "Sure, it'd be great to achieve target-bow balance with your hunting bow -- dead center left to right and tipping forward to about 45 degrees -- but that's not practical, or necessary, for most hunting scenarios. Here's Larry Wise's solution..."
date: "2014-07-15"
modified: "2014-07-15"
authors:
  - name: "The Editors"
    link: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/authors/the-editors/"
url: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/big-buck-zone/2014/07/how-balance-your-hunting-bow/"
categories:
  - "Big Game Hunting"
  - "Bow Hunting"
  - "Bow Hunting Gear"
  - "Deer Hunting"
  - "Gear"
  - "Hunting"
  - "Hunting Gear"
  - "Whitetail Deer Hunting"
---

# How to Balance Your Hunting Bow

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Sure, it'd be great to achieve target-bow balance with your hunting bow -- dead center left to right and tipping forward to about 45 degrees -- but that's not practical, or necessary, for most hunting scenarios.

Here's Larry Wise's solution...

He offsets his stabilizer to the left to act as a counter-weight to his arrows and quiver. He gets a fairly well-balanced bow without having to hunt with a long, awkward stabilizer. However you decide to balance your bow, make sure to tune it and practice with it that way before the season starts.

*--[Larry Wise](<https://larrywise.com/>) has competed and coached archery at the professional level for decades. He's a retired high-school math teacher and a bowhunting fanatic.*