Backquivers have been around for a very long time. There are alot of choices to pick from and my following instructions may not work with all. The Hill style backquiver is the choice of many and will hold alot of arrows if one wishes to carry lots. I for one like to only carry six to eight in the main section and any others may be placed above the deviding lace within at the top.After one has the chest strap properly adusted snugly across his or her chest, you can draw arrows easily from it. If you wear your quiver strap to loose, it will hang to low down one's back making it hard to retrieve your arrows when needed.When making your draw, you need to bring your bow hand back and find the bottom of the quiver, steadying the quiver and pushing upward slightly. At this same time you need to be reaching for a selected arrow with your drawing hand. These two described steps are done at the same time and only in doing so will you be able to enjoy the use of a backquiver.If one tries to reach for an arrow without placing his or her bow drawing hand at the bottom edge of the quiver, an archer will look like a dog trying to catch its tail,and most of the time will be seen turning around in one's tracks.The reason being, when the good Lord made us humans, he made our chest and arm sockets in a way that we can reach more easily backwards over our shoulders when we do our arms in unison. This too tells our mind where the arrows are and we can draw an arrow out of the quiver without having to ever look. This has come in handy for me when hunting wild boar, and needing to keep my eyes on the suject at hand. Otherwise if I were to take my eyes away and then look back forward,I would not know where to find my animal. Chances are he or she would be running half way up my leg, no time to side step or get off a shot, much less climb a tree.After retreiving an arrow you swing up and over and down onto the bowstring, nocking the arrow, redying to make the draw.A nock that has a small indicator on top allows one to volley the arrow and know mentally where the nock groove is located without looking to see. I prefer to nock my arrow on top of the nocking point, as it makes placement on the string much easier than nocking an arrow under the nocking point.My choice of arrow placement on top of the nocking point, keeps every movement flowing in unison.It would be helpful if one would do nothing else but practice drawing and nocking an arrow in order to be better prepared under hunting conditions.For hunting reasons the practice of getting faster at nocking an arrow can be just as important as practice of shooting. These two things go hand in hand when the pressue is on. Hope this info will help you that may be considering the use of a backquiver and those that have never had someone explain matters. Jerry Hill
Topic: How to draw from a backquiver (Read 1008 times)
