For starters I can't beleive you are arguing about stabilizers and getting all pissy when someone corrects you. A guy asks why you need longer stabs and offsets while target shooting and you tell him that you don't, it's all BS. Then when someone says you are wrong you get upset. If you knew why did you ask in the first place? And further more, why do you care? What is it to you if someone shoots a 3 foot stab for target, or a 1 foot one for hunting? If you don't want to that is fine, doesn't mean I or someone else can't if we want to. I don't use a peep or fancy sights on my bow, I know others that don't even use sights. Doesn't mean others are wrong because they do. Why do you use a stabilizer at all if they are BS? You could just as easily kill deer without one, and your bow would weigh less and be easier to carry in the woods.

I personally use an 11 inch stabilizer (actually two screwed together) that weighs about a pound. It is on a 30 inch ATA bow and I do not have any trouble getting it thru the woods and moving around in a tree stand.

And stabilizers do serve a function. The newer ones not so much to stabilize the bow, but to reduce vibration and recoil. I personally think if you are using one under 8 inches to stabilize the bow you might as well take it off because probably isn't long enough to do anything but add weight and get in the way.

A longer stabilizer helps the bow resist side to side movement helping keep your pin more steady on the target. It takes longer to settle down sometimes, but once it does it takes more force to move it again. (They also make nice rests while your looking at the target or waiting to shoot.) V-bars or counter weights do just what the name implies. They counter act the forward weight of the long stabilizer to help balance the bow better. They also add mass and can be adjusted to help with natural cant. A heavier bow also holds more steady on the target, it's not fun to carry, but it shoots better.

Paul