A stabilizer should hold your bow steady both while at full draw and at the time of release while shooting. When an archer is holding at full draw, there are many forces built up in the cables, limbs, and back of the archer, etc. When the arrow is released, these forces change suddenly. These changing forces affect the bow in addition to the flight of the arrow. The job of the stabilizer is to resist the movement of the bow resulting from these forces.

The light weight ultra-rigid carbon rod is critical to the system for numerous reasons. If the connecting rod is too heavy, it adds mass weight to the bow but it does not allow the archer to use the weight effectively. In addition, if the rod is weak or the weight is "disconnected" from the rigid bar with rubber, the weight cannot effectively resist the forces exerted on the bow before the arrow has left the string.

The patented design of the Bee Stinger has the moments of inertia (the compact disc weight) at the furthest point of attachment from the bow or the "distal end".