Keep in mind if you already have a case for your bow you'll have to take it on/off depending on the stabilizer too.
I honestly dont understand how hunters think that, even with a good stabilizer, if it doesnt help much with balancing your bow, at least it takes away all the hand shock and noise, so its worth gettin one just makes it way nicer to shoot your bow, no?
I have an 8" stabilizer, id have longer if they offered it from NAP Apache. But it shouldn't be cumbersome in a treestand, I mean it is open air, a blind on the other hand it could be cumbersome.
I have both the 6" and 9" versions of the Trophy Ridge Static stabilizers. They are not the reported lengths. The 6" is actually 8"~ and the 9" is 11"
I have a trophy ridge static stabilizer. 9". I like it and it has tightened my groups up. I like the way you can add or remove weight from the front of it.