This is what a Mathews damper is doing to absorb energy as a shot is released.

I love my Mathews bow but couldn’t help but wonder if the damper was more of a marketing gimmick vs a function that was doing much to absorb the energy being released during a shot so I asked my son to run a video.

Bow is the Mathews V3 31. First clip is the nano damper on the riser itself, second shot is the front stabilizer (10” Mathews Flatline), and the third shot is the back stabilizer (8” Mathews Flatline).

Kinda cool. Not scientific by any means but from the video it is pretty clear that the damper itself is absorb a good amount of energy.

One video I left out was the shot of the damper on the Axcel RheoTech HD. The damper on the site didn’t move at all. The Axcel site has the traditional Mathews 3/4” damper found on some of the older bows.

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