Alot depends on your bow.A proper stabilizer needs to be beyound your limb pockets.Also most of the weight should be to the tail end.Normally a good hunting stabilizer would be around 6 to 10 inhes long.I'm running a limbsaver limbjammer with the balance control weight.I can off set the weight in a 360 degree rotation to fine tune the balance for my set up.I made a big differance in my long range groups.