Your Preferred Quiver/Pack Arrangment

[Even]

For all you bow quiver guys, how quickly can you have another arrow on the string?   Do you think you give up something there, or not, with a lot of practice?

Thats the single biggest reason I love my back quiver.  When hunting, its the first shot that counts... usually

I don't even think about it anymore... another arrow is on the string waiting to see how the first shot works out.

[smokin joe]

I am a bow quiver guy. My favorite is the Selway quiver. I also like the Eagles Flight quivers. A good quiver will be quiet and vibration free.

For a pack, That changes during the season depending on what I am taking with me. I have a few options from a small fanny pack to a day pack that I can fit lunch and a thermos and a warm jacket into.

[Walt Francis]

Mike, not sure what cover you are in or how you hunt, but I LOVE a bow quiver in the thick stuff. It is much easier to get one item through the brush than two items, especially when the 2nd item in behind you.

So much unnecessary movement and noise for me not to use a bow quiver on just about every hunting scenario.  Just one item in front of me to slip through the brush, no need for me to double the trouble. No way would I be as efficient hunting the way I do with two items to maneuver. Twice the movement and twice the chance of more noise, most of which would largely be from the 2nd item.

Just my experience Mike. 

Check this brush, the 1st clip was when I got within 10 yards, the 2nd was at 4.

Sorry for the delay, let em load.....

https://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/20230203_175329.mp4

https://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/20230203_175429.mp4

Could not have expressed my thoughts better then Terry.

[Walt Francis]

For all you bow quiver guys, how quickly can you have another arrow on the string?   Do you think you give up something there, or not, with a lot of practice?

Thats the single biggest reason I love my back quiver.  When hunting, its the first shot that counts... usually

I don't even think about it anymore... another arrow is on the string waiting to see how the first shot works out.

I’m fairly fast getting the next arrow out when needed. Not as fast as with a back quiver, but fairly fast.  More important, is getting the arrow out with minimal movement. Drawing an arrow from a back quiver is a lot more movement than removing an arrow from the bow quiver.

[Maclean]

I hunt with bow quivers mainly because I'm always wearing a backpack. I hunt elk from the ground in the Rocky Mountain west and I'm constantly on the move. The pack is big enough to carry an overnight bivy setup, and everything I need to disassemble an elk, hang the quarters, and pack out the first load of meat (so it's not a daypack). I use Great Northern strap on, or EFA quivers on all of my bows with great success and like them both equally.

[Deno]

Hill back quiver, military fanny pack and shoulder bag.

[Longtoke]

I have tried a handful of bow quivers,  still more I would like to try.  So far my favorite is the selway slide on because of how rock solid it is on a bow.  I like a hill style back quiver for chasing bunnies and things like that,  but when you have to belly crawl and push through thick brush a bow quiver is just easier.

I also think the mass it gives helps me shoot light bows like my Pika better.

[cacciatore]

It’s 40 years that I have my bows with bow quivers on and I never had any kind of vibration, on the recurves I like Great Northern on the Widows I have Thunderhorn some may have Selway. For the longbows most carry an EFA or a strap on Great Northern.

[Skates 2]

I am definitely in the bow quiver gang. 

[Even]

I get it... it would sure make pack selection a hell of a lot easier!

Deno, love that old shoulder bag.

[Deno]

I get it... it would sure make pack selection a hell of a lot easier!

Deno, love that old shoulder bag.

/quote]    Thanks Dave,   Very easy to make.

[two4hooking]

I use the BQ exclusively and just make it work because I think it is the best once it becomes a part of you.  That takes work but....   So when I go out on extended elk type trips I use a wide belt and possibles bag.  I strap it to pack or stand sometimes, or packseat.  I can always get at an arrow.

[Tim Reese]

I feel I ve tried everything and right this second I’d say a haversack and leather side stalker for my ASL hunting. I’d give them a shot.

Or your back quiver with haversack is a great option and very similar.


Yeah like two4’s pics above

[Tim Reese]

Here’s my haversack and back quiver in a hunt

[Kyle85]

I've just been on day trips lately, an I run the Eberlestock X2 pack which carries quite a lot very comfortably. 

I hunt in thick stuff and steep stuff that occasionally will require utilizing the takedown feature of my bows so I can climb safely, but a bow quiver makes this more complicated.  This, plus the fact that I like the bare bow look and feel, makes me a side-quiver guy. 

The X2 has moly attachments and I run a single thin flat nylon strap with a cinching hook at one end and a loop at the other through the moly and through a plastic d-ring on the Safari-tuff quiver and it attaches perfectly on the side of the pack.  I don't have to touch it and my next arrow is right beside where my hand naturally falls.  I actually have it on in my profile picture on my right side, you just can't see it. 

The other advantage here is that between going through thick brush and occasional rain showers here in Hawaii I can protect my fletching with the side quiver. 

I can carry several broadheads in there and I usually slip a blunt arrow in the back as well for stump shooting.  I think something like a forward-facing hip quiver like the one Omnivore's homestead makes could work as well, just less fletching protection of course. 

[Even]

See, now this is where it gets interesting to me:  You have people who like their bow quivers for moving through thick cover.   You have guys like me, and I'm sure a couple above, who slide their back quiver under their arm, for moving through thick cover.   Now we have a guy who hunts Hawaii with a side quiver, for moving through thick cover.   

I've been IN some of the thick stuff on the Big Island, and Maui, and its bloody thick, and usually steep.  Amazing to me that you find a side quiver works for you.  Eberlestock makes sweet packs!

I'm originally from North Coastal BC, and I don't know if it gets much thicker than that, in places.  Its a wall of green.  Never had an issue with the back quiver, aside from the odd time it just got TOO thick.

Ive seen some of the pictures that Terry posts, with that nasty Texas scrub stuff, and its thick too.  It also looks thorny and stiff, like pushing through it isn't usually a good idea.  Amazing to me that it isn't always trying to claw your bow quiver arrows out of their spots. 

I guess its all what you are used to, hey?    That is kinda what this thread is about: seeing what people do, for the type of hunting they do, and getting ideas.

I know, looking at two4hooking's awesome pics, that I am DEFINITELY finding a thicker belt than I have.  Spread the load!

[two4hooking]

I didn’t like the extra shoulder strap or weight. That wide belt helps. I still prefer to be a minimalist unless there is a chance i may have to stay out overnight away from camp or deal with an elk. It is pretty thick out east here where the hunt as well and i prefer to still hunt. Takes technique and time but i prefer the BQ now for all. I carry on old bread bag under the false bottom of my quiver and if caught in a downpour i can cover the feathers. In a light rain i don’t bother. Feathers are pretty resilient.