Why have a tapered shaft?

Wind taper refers to 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.

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 weigh, 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 thicker at the base, it's strong enough to support a higher amount of mass weight, and at it tapers out towards the end, it reduces the amount of surface area that can pushed around by the wind. Some might say it's the best of both worlds.

vibration reduction

With the tapered design of the wind taper, it's able to reduce more vibration from your shot by channeling it away from the bow and towards the tip of the stabilizer.