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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: highpoint forge on October 15, 2011, 09:00:00 PM
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Last weekend I ruined two arrows busting through the brush out at the ranch I hunt. Ripped feathers off two arrows. That sucked. I can't machete my way through The thickets as it would cause so much racket....way worse than me crashing around! So, I often have no choice but to push through, sometimes crawling, sometimes on my knees. I use a Thunderhorn leg quiver. Anybody have a method to protect your fetching, that's lightweight, etc.? Just a camo bag I suppose.....
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I use the bow mate elite side quiver. It hides and protects your fletchings from the elements and bushes.
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If your going to be hunting that spot for awhile why don't you just clear a path. Or you could get an arrow master quiver.
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One part of your problem, may be the angle at which your arrows are at.
The Mark Baker Quiver Caddy uses a Kwikee Quiver, and has a more horizontal (flat) angle that allows your arrows to go through heavy brush with less resistance.
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r76/Timroberts_bucket/Mark.jpg)
Thanks,
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You can make or by a tube quiver, the one in the pic works in wet weather and bad brush
(http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q291/bjornweb/DSCN0599sm.jpg)
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Exactly why I use a Cat Quiver..
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I use a JAck Bower's side stalker. When hunting I slip a poly fleece hood over the fletch to cover the bright colors, prorect the fletch and, like today, keep the rain off.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Bowhunting/stumpshoot17APR11.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Bowhunting/HPIM2650.jpg)
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I need a bag over the fetching. Still easily accessible. I can adjust the hip quiver more horizontally so the feathers are parallel with my belt more or less.....
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Safari Tuff is the way to go, I love mine in all weather all conditions.
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PA thought it smart many years ago to plant multaflora rose all over game lands for "cover". It has since exploded everywhere.
I have a pair of ratchett cutters in one hand and snip my way quietly removing whatever might catch ahead of me as I go...
I tend to make it somewhat serpentine so it's not too apparent in the populated backEast areas I hunt.
Best done on a scouting trip or a mid-day walk back out... as to do it right/quiet, takes time.
As for noise tween plowing brush and hacking it out, I once hadn't shaved and turned my head SLOWLY responding to a flicker of movement to one side some 80 yrd away, but my 2-day beard growth rubbed lightly against a cotton collar... That buck zeroed on me like I hollared at him!
Noise is noise me thinks...but deer response varies according to pressure
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Doc that is the freakin' truth! I don't know what this underbrush is in East TX but I'm not kidding when I say I had to crawl through much of it in lots and lots of places. Mix in enough greenbriars and it becomes an exercise in patience rather quickly-forget hunting because you could never draw and shoot at anything. You would NEVER find a bedded hog or deer in this stuff. Last week I finally proceeded down a ravine in the middle of the tangle until I found a dry creekbed and walked out via its course. Heck of a lot quieter too I might add. On a place as big as I hunt, theres no point in blazing a trail. Snippers/cutters are a great idea, and I already carry them in Turkey season, so why not now? Interestingly enough I find cleared grassy areas in the middle of these thickets sometimes.......makes me wanna ambush something in those spots for sure......
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Originally posted by Bjorn:
You can make or by a tube quiver, the one in the pic works in wet weather and bad brush
(http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q291/bjornweb/DSCN0599sm.jpg)
That is a very nice and practical tube quiver. Did you make that (home made)?
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PVC tubing with foam in the end for broadheads, cut out for arrow entry/exit, and spray adhesive over tube then wrap in camo fabric of choice. Add hood and strap afterwards. Actually that IS a good ideer and would travel well too. Reminds me of the Maddog style.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/paradocs/archery/016.jpg)
Steve Catts Sidekick III
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Some years back on here, someone was retelling a story in TX of crawling down one of those tunnels in the brush and met a boar hog head on and the hog didn't like the intrusion one bit... I think as I recall, it got dicey, but obviously, the guy survived to write about it!
I'd find some snipper that is NOT a ratchet style...they make a metalic "clink" each set of the blade that seems to carry and is an unatural sound in the wild!
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Kustom King has a cover that fits all quivers. Am just a bit curious though, if the brush is tearing your fletch off whats going to keep the cover from being torn off?
Thanks,
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Staying out of those thickets maybe?