What is this bow worth?

 

 

Thanks, I appreciate the kind words CFII!

 

I'm into archery, but not quite as much as I am guns and optics.  I actually have that same bow in my collection, but with different limbs and cams.

 

Dale, the stabilizer does 2 things:

 

1.  It provides a low, forward weight to balance the bow in the hand so that it's a little easier to aim steadily.

2.  Since the bow isn't 100% efficient and not all of the stored energy is transferred into the arrow, the remainder of the energy is converted to vibrations, which means noise.  Stabilizers provide a pathway for this vibration to be dissipated, by providing weight in motion.  This particular Hoyt stabilizer had a brass weight suspended inside some type of polymer media inside the hollow portion at the front of the stabilizer.

 

Yes.  This particular stabilizer has the holes machined in it to move the weight forward, and also because it looks cool.

Given that it has what Hoyt called their "Fall Blend" camo finish at the time and the fact it does have the string silencers added, this bow was setup for hunting.  But, with different sight, rest, stabilizer and using competition style arrows, the same bow worked well for various forms of competitive archery during its time.  There have been quite a few improvements in bow design since then, however.  It also depends on what class of competition you're talking about and whether you're talking 3D, Field, indoor archery, etc.  I used to compete in 3D archery, and that was a commonly used bow in the hunter class using non-moving sight pins.

 

 

Nope, we stopped doing all shows about 6-7 years ago.