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Please comment below your favorite style of quiver for hunting and why!
I am interested to hear everyone’s take on this one as I have experimented with almost everything and still don’t know that I have a favorite.
As I now focus mostly on Hill style bows and my own self bows, I have myself returned to using hill style back quiver and a side stalking style quiver. I like them equally and they each have a place for me.
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Safari Tuff...mine has been on over 900 hunts...finally about time for a new one...will purchase another one.
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Great Northern and Thunderhorn strap-on for hunting and Riverwolf Alpha for toten arrows in for a few days of hunting.
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I have a stitched Hillstyle back quiver like the one Bob Swinehart used. I wouldn’t consider hunting or shooting with anything else.
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Great Northern strap on quiver, with a Selway being my second choice. I prefer a bow quiver and both are excellent.
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I have a stitched Hillstyle back quiver like the one Bob Swinehart used. I wouldn’t consider hunting or shooting with anything else.
Shoot ya ol son! I’ll post a pic of the one I made and use.
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My homemade hill style. Only down fall to these for me is when wearing a pack and being able to get to my arrows quickly. But for hunting close to the truck absolutely 👍🏼
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I use a side stalker style quiver for target and 3D but prefer a GFA style quiver for hunting. I made it with an old Selway quiver with the hood and arrow hilder attached to a board I covered with snake skin for decoration. With the shoulder strap you can wear is along your side, behind your back or tucked under your arm for tight hunting areas. I keep a fletch cover wrapped around the board with easy access when needed. It is quiet and protects the broadhead like a bow quiver does.
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I use a Thunderhorn Small Fry bow quiver for all my hunting. My other option I use sometimes for roving, 3D or squirrel hunting is my Hill style back quiver I made for myself 40 years ago.
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I hunt with the Selway quick detach quiver on 95% of my hunts but I love side quiver and Jack Bower side stalker side quiver is my favorite,when I am hunt I carry 6 judo tips arrow for stump shooting.
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Thunderhorn Linx for one-piece and two point for a takedown.
DP
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I have two EFA models both with set back and Totem shafts and can’t imagine a hunt without them. Quiet, sturdy and very well crafted.
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[ You are not allowed to view attachments ] Hill style back quiver all the time. It is a part of my system and nothing is faster, carries more ammo, or more a part of me. :archer2:
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Hill style back quivers
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Love seeing all you fine fellers using the Hill style quivers!
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Mostly Safari Tuff. Once in awhile I use a Great Northern strap on, or a bolt on Black Widow-on a Black Widow.
BTW, mine is the Duiker model, which I think is no longer made. Just a smaller size.
Nice when you only need a few arrows. The pouch is big enough for a file ,Minnie binoculars, knife, and other odds and ends.
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Great Northern strap on quiver followed by a selway slide on quiver. I like having everything right there and accessible in one hand.
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I agree Trenton, they are handy. But I do also like colorful fletching and when I am in a tree stand, I just hang up my side quiver. Fletching is less likely to cause a problem. I read where G Fred made some camouflage arrows and didn’t like them at all. He couldn’t see them in flight. He liked to see a ball of color flying towards his target. There are trade-offs I guess.
Another thing is it keeps my fletching dry if caught in a downpour which happened quite a bit on one particular elk hunt in Colorado.
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The Kwikee Kwiver is my favorite. Easy on and easy off. Plus, with the same bracket you can put on a 3, 4, or 6 arrow Kwikee Kwiver. Bad part is Kwikee Kwiver went out of business. :dunno: I also have a Great Northern strap-on quiver, a Selway side mount quiver, two EFA quivers, a few Vintage Bear spring-arm quivers, and a few Bear Super Seven quivers. Plus, one belt/hip quiver I like a lot.
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The Kwikee Kwiver. Easy on and easy off. Plus, with the same bracket you can put on a 3, 4, or 6 arrow Kwikee Kwiver. Bad part is Kwikee Kwiver went out of business. :dunno:
Kwikee are classic. And yes very unfortunate they closed doors.
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My favorite Kwikee Kwiver is my three arrow Bear Archery one. :biglaugh: :goldtooth:
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Kwikee and Gunshy are my favorite bow quives.
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Here is a Kwikee Sidewinder, another Kwikee hip quiver my good friend Frank made and gave me, and a couple more my good buddy Jed sent me.
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I really like Great Northern quivers as well. Here is a bolt on I just picked up for my beautiful 1972 Super Kodiak.
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Only have one screw in quiver mounted on a Big River mild D/R longbow, it came to me that way.
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Great northern for me. I have strap ons,side mount and limb bolt. I also have a mini cat quiver and a leather tube quiver. I just prefer not to have anything hanging off my side. I once arrived at my stand only to realize I left my arrows home .
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I like my Catquiver I. Takes a little bit of getting used to getting the arrows back in. Once that is mastered I love the way it protects the fletching and keeps everything out of the way until I need it.
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Safari Tuff or Asbell style made from old Black Widow bow quiver for my ASL's, 3 Great Northern's and 3 Selway's for my other bows.
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I use bow quivers a lot, Selway, Thunderhorn, Eagles Flight.
For non bow quivers I have used Cat Quivers some in the past but I have a River Wolf tube quiver that Ralph made me that is my preference for non bow quivers.
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Thunderhorn Boa small fry bow quiver for me.
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Depending on the season or how I am bowhunting. Inside a blind i like to bring this back quiver i made out of plumbing pvc and a some hunting strap hardware.
If its deer/moose season and I am mobile or in a stand I use my selway side quiver.
Inside a blind a side quiver on my short longbow is frustrating. The arrow nocks are always sticking into the mud. This is why I prefer to pack my arrows in a backquiver and have them ready.
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safari tuff, but did love my lakota quiver I made years ago, that was stolen.,
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I have owned most every quiver out there at one time, my favorite by far is the Great Northern. It just does everything better.
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Pays to have a few different quivers on hand. :goldtooth:
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Going back plenty of years now I guess, I have tried most methods of carrying my hunting arrows. Bow mounted quivers I started with, back quivers like Hill style, tube style like the Safari Tuff, sling style where the quiver has a hood and arrow gripper like a bow mounted, but you sling it and it'll ride on your hip and you can set it down where decide to sit or stand for a bit ..........
I will say so far, no quiver style is absolutely perfect. They all seem to have at least 1 thing about them that keeps them from being absolutely perfect ....... Im talking about the method of carry and the actual model of quiver.
What I have found to be closest to perfect, is the Great Northern strap on. I use the model with the kick back, and these days I always opt for the in line arrow gripper. To me, the inline gripper is a MUST. I do like to shoot a bow without a quiver attached if Im just shooting arrows and having fun. If I'm going to the woods, my bow will have a quiver strapped to it. It makes 1 complete package, ready to grab and take care of business. I can grab it an run. I can peel an arrow out of the quiver fast and get it on the string with the most efficiency of movement if needed. I also like the way it balances out my longbows. The Great Northern quality is hard to beat. The strap on style can be moved from 1 bow to another easy and in seconds, if you should need to.....no special screw mounting to the riser. Strap it down good, they are solid and silent. I started with a couple Great Northerns but back then, they did not offer the inline gripper (that I ever saw anyhow), only the 3 in front, 2 in back configuration. I always hated that. When the in line gripper was offered, I went back to GN and my quiver needs are water under the bridge. Im staying with GN, not looking back. To me , they are as close to perfect as I need.
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I'm not a fan of quivers in general and have a big pile of all types. As far as bow quivers I like Thunderhorn the best mostly on recurves, but what I use most often is a Powderhorn side Stalking quiver made by Art Vincent as I don't really want a bow quiver on my longbows.
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I've used several of the big names out there and they are all good, I am currently using a Big Jim's quiver with the Deflex bracket on my new Javaman Elkheart and its my all time favorite now. Really like the secure, rock solid way it mounts and the positive lock it gives to the arrows, no more loose arrows sliding down and out of the gripper. Price point was also very good compared to many of the others. Give them a look, you won't be disappointed!
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Ffor me Thunderhorn's small fry 4 arrow for most hunts. I have a six arrow for hog hunting.
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I think mine is similar to a safarituff I see guys listing. Here it’s so thick that you’d tear your arrows off a bow quiver, or a hill style quiver with exposed arrows. I would like a hill style for stumping. And I’d like the bow quiver for convenience. But realistically while walking slowly through thick woods and brush. It’s difficult enough carrying a bow through it, let alone if arrows were hanging off the bow or stuck up behind your head. So with the safarituff type, the arrows are fully enclosed behind you. Rain proof. Brush can rake past without touching the arrows and easy to get an arrow out when needed out the side. But it’s a rigid pipe on your back. Hard to load back up when it’s on your back. Can’t hold a lot of arrows like when stumping. But for arrow protection it works well
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Great Northern is the best I have used, I always liked the Bighorn quiver G Fred sold for his Recurves back when I shot recurve a lot.
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As stated, I'm a GN fan. Do use a old Delta quiver (G Fred) to transport extra ammo(7 arrows) into camp.
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I have owned most every quiver out there at one time, my favorite by far is the Great Northern. It just does everything better.
I will have to agree with Walt on this.As far as bow quivers go I have a lot of them and have used a lot of them and still using them on 95% dependent on the hunt.
All other quivers are a deterrent for me.The way I hunt. I can't take the flagging, Noisy snagging and hard to retrieve Arrows.I don't have time for all that. Nor do I like spooking game because of all the movement and noise.
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Yes, GN with fletching cover is one of the best ways to go.
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I've have been a fan of Great Northern bow quivers for a long time but won an Eagles Flight bow quiver in the St Jude's Auction last year and really like it as well.
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Marksman quiver. Best design and build quality.
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My favorite is the Selway. It is 100% reliable and trouble free. Silent too.
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Marksman quiver. Best design and build quality.
I will have to tip my hat to that.Also the last seven animals I have killed have been with Marksman quiver's and yes they are the most high tech quivers on the market.
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Look impressive, it I wasn't strap-on quiver rich right now.
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I have one of Big Jim's strap-on quivers, that I really like. I use it with a fletching cover, and I am very happy with it's performance.
Murray