The following stabilizer setup technique changed my archery life...I have three bows, one of which held perfect balance and just felt great overall at draw, the others felt like a never ending quest of trial and error on stabilizers until...
...I found the center of mass for for the one I love, and used stabilizers and weights to replicate that on the other two. The way I found the center of mass was to hang the bow from a single point on the cam and let a weighted string drop down to create one "line". Then hung the bow from a a point on the string near the d-loop and let a weighted string drop down to get a second "line". The intersection is the center of mass. The exact placement of the hanging points doesn't matter any two points will do as long as you can find the intersection, which is nice because the weighted string needs to hang freely not affected by other accessories in the way.
Did the same on all three bows, and was surprized to see how different accessories and brands of bows create different balance points! But used stabilizer lengths and weights to get them all weighing the same total weight and balancing in the exact same spot relative to my bow hand, and suddenly they all felt exactly the same (within reason of course).
For me, since I shoot and compete BHFS, the balance point is about 1.5" below the shelf and about 0.25" into the riser (0.25" further away from my body that the point where my bowhand contacts the riser.
There are youtube videos on how to find center of mass of bow if not clear. Having a measureable way to characterize the stabilizer setup was amazing. Now if only there were a quantifiable way of seeing the effect of different stabilizer setups on precision without having to rely on "group tuning" or shooting every permutation of setup for a month before "feeling" if it seemed like it might have maybe improved my scores (or whether any one of the the 1000 other variables was responsible for my slightly better or worse score).
Hope this helps!
