Thoughts on Hill-style quiver

[jdupre]

I was just looking at some of the pictures of Hill's quiver in a couple of books I have and noticed how really flexible his quivers were. They were almost like a loose sack as opposed to the fairly thick and rigid quivers that are the norm now. Has anyone tried a thinner and more flexible quiver and how did you like it?

Joey

[mongo45]

I use a Howard Hill back quiver from Howard Hill Archery.  i don't think a better back quiver exists.  the quiver conforms to my back and the arrows don't fall out when i bend over to pick up the arrow i missed with. I pick up alot of missed arrows.
tm

[jdupre]

Yeah, bending over to pick up an arrow that missed the target AND having your arrows fall out too is NOT cool.LOL

[DesertDude]

take a look at the quivers I make in my post.  6/7 leather seams to be the right fit for a back quiver.  remember to keep it oiled and it will soften up........Mark

[Stone Knife]

I have a hunter quiver that is made by Mike G. He is listed on this site in the trad gang sponsors list under mike's archery leather. My quiver is flexible I have never had an arrow fall out when bending over even in heavy brush.


   

[jdupre]

Yeah, Stone Knife, that seems more like the old Hill quivers- flexible enough to conform to your back. Thanks for the response.

Joey

[Charlie Lamb]

Consider the stage of his career that Hill was in. I'll bet that the pictures of him in the real "baggy" type quivers were from his youth.

As his tastes and experience evolved he moved to slightly stiffer quivers which pressed lightly against his back and the arrows without "snagging" on his barbed broadheads...his favorite heads were barbed until the advent of his last commercial offering.

I've got a mid sixties, machine stitched, Hill back quiver that is soft enough to collapse around the arrows but firm enough to hold it's shape. Same quiver that Hill had been using.

[Nate Steen .]

Right-0 Charlie,

Hill's early quivers were quite soft, for the quietness sake, but many were too soft, and he had to attach a dowel to the outside to keep it from collapsing too much.  In the 50's and later, he went to a slightly stiffer leather, probably about 6 oz. or so, which solved the problem.  On his laced quivers, he just laced a stiff piece of sole leather to the bottom and that kept the bottom from collapsing too much.  With the machine stitched quivers, HH Archery put a stiffer piece of leather around the bottom to keep the leather from collapsing.....Swinehart used this kind of quiver, and yours is probably the same kind.

[Charlie Lamb]

Exactly Nate! I need to get a picture of that quiver and show everybody what a REAL Hill quiver looked like.    

Even thought about getting a friend of mine in the saddle business to make one just like it for me... I retired mine years ago to save wear and tear.