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. I’ve seen videos of people doing crazy tests like dropping a riser on concrete with and without the damper and listening for resonant noise as it smacks the ground. Call me crazy but I’m not willing to do that.

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.

I have this site. Can you replace the damper with a colored one? I'm looking to change mine to orange.

 

You can. The 3/4” ones are hard to find in orange. I’ve been looking myself. You can find lots of black, yellow, pink and purple ones but might need to have your dealer see if they can find orange. Just make sure it’s 3/4” width like this.

 

The thinner ones will fit too. You'll just have a 3/16" of the original brass weight sticking out each side. Or swap weight and rubber for a thinner one. I don't think you'll get the thick rubber from Mathews anymore. Best bet is watch ebay for old stock


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How would I retrofit a weight in and would it fill up the entire void in the sight?

 

Try this part number. Mathews is really screwed up with the way they I’d identify part numbers. Like this is the packaging for both the 3/8” and 3/4” dampers. Same for both. On the front of the packaging card they’d check a box identifying it as one of the two. But the part number is shared for both.

 

I put a nano one in mine and it fits also. Try it out and you’ll get an idea of what he’s saying.

 

But does it fill the entire bracket? Photo?