Why have a tapered shaft?

Wind taper refers to the exterior shape of the stabilizer shaft. There are parallel rods that work great, but the geometry of a tapered shaft provides many benefits.

With the wind taper, you get three awesome advantages: wind efficiency, stiffness, and vibration reduction. If you've read our article on What Makes a Great Stabilizer, you'll know that those are the trifecta of what makes a great stabilizer.

The first tapered rod in our history is the Vektor, released in 2020, and since then, all of our premium stabilizers feature the wind taper.

Why should you care about wind efficiency?

Shooting in the wind isn't always ideal, but it's also not something you can always escape. If you've shot in the wind and felt yourself get blown around, the chances of you getting pulled away from the gold are high. Wind efficiency is a measure of how much that is reduced, whether it's from wind torque or wind drag, while still maintaining a balanced set up.

A tapered stabilizer shaft allows for more wind efficiency exactly where it's needed most - out at the far end of the stabilizer. A narrower tipped stabilizer reduces the cross section exposed to the wind as well as reduces wind torque which twists the bow as force is applied to the distal end by wind.

Wind torque

Wind drag

stabilizer stiffness

When it comes to stabilizer stiffness, the wind taper can help in a big way. If you use a lot of mass weight, but you also want a thin stabilizer, it might not be stiff enough to hold all the weight that you want. That's where the wind taper comes into play. Since it's larger at the base, it has the strength to support higher amounts of mass weight and withstand that mechanical stress.

vibration reduction

As a 3rd benefit, the RamRods Wind Taper provides additional vibration damping over a parallel shaft rod since a tapered rod reduces more vibration from your shot by channeling it away from the bow and towards the tip of the stabilizer. It can also absorb a wider spectrum of vibration frequencies due to its non-constant diameter.

If you've never shot a tapered stabilizer, it is definitely worth trying.