Bow Quivers and Skinny Carbons

[Avid Archer]

Does the arrow gripper on the Selway, EFA, Kanati, Great Northern and like quivers work well with skinny carbons such as the Axis/MFX?

-Dave

[OkKeith]

I have had no problems with my newer Selways or any of my Boas.

Not sure if the older ones have bigger grippers or are just stretched out from holding alum. and wood arrows for so long before I started using carbons.

OkKeith

[ncsaknech1ydh]

Hi Avid Archer: If you get on 3 rivers archery, a sponser on this site, you will find you can order the slide on selway quivers with grippers to fit either fat or skinny arrows, you can also order just the skinny gripper to fit in selway quivers you currently have, I have several selways on my Bob Lees, and shoot the Carbon Express 250s and they all work great. DK.

[Green]

Big Jim's bow quiver is also a good one for the Beman MFX's,etc.

[hockey7]

I use rubber "O" rings on my gripper. They take up enough space so my Axis arrows are held tight.
Thunderhorn also sells rubber rings, wider than O rings.

[Manitoba Stickflinger]

Kanati offers different size grippers! When you order, one comes with the quiver and you can get other sizes as well in case you change arrow sizes.

[2fletch]

At EFA (Eagle's Flight Archery we make two sizes of grippers. The standard fits from about 18/64ths to 22/54ths, while the larger gripper fits 20/64ths to 23/64ths.

If you use a 22/64th shaft for awhile and then go to a smaller 18/64th shaft, it may be necessary to use rubber bands or O-rings to get a tight fit.

[neargeezer]

The Great Northern quivers with the small gripper holds Beman MFX very well and one of the best in cold weather.

[Danny J]

I use o rings same as hockey or 2fletch. One o ring will do 2 slots. that way as long as u have the larger size you can switch back and forth.

[Avid Archer]

Thanks everyone

[LPM]

I went through this crisis when I finaly gave in and bought carbon arrows.

I had been using 2219 aluminum shafts in a bow quiver of my own design.

I use the griper from selway.  I did not want to change gripers so I tried the easy thing first.

I just took some electricians tape and split it down the middle.

I rolled up short sections of this tape sort of like you would roll up scotch tape to stick your children's art work on the frig.

Only roll them up real tight so the cylinder shape is about a 1/16' diameter.

Now you have a sticky side out, cylinder.

On the selway type gripper, there is a tight space between each individual shaft cutout.

Spread these spaces open and tuck the tape cylenders in there.

This forces the arrow cut outs to close up and fit the smaller shafts nice and tight.

I thought they would fall out but they hang in there for quite a while.  Every once in a while I may tuck one back in but they pretty much just stay put.

They are black and you don't even notice them.

I had intended to use a dremel tool with a ball shaped rotor bit and grind a small divet inside this space between the arrow cut outs.

Then I was going to place the correct size lead BB in there to force the cut outs closer.

The tape works so well I just decided to keep on with it.

Sorry for the long story but may be it will give you an Idea or two......

[John Dill]

What Manitoba says. We deemed it important to have 3 arrow gripper sizes that work with our products.....to make life easy so you can get back to bowhunting.