Do you use a fletch cover for your bow quiver?

[J. Cook]

Let me know about your thoughts on a fletch cover for your quiver.  I've always used bright fletching on my arrows and thought I might give try to a fletch cover.  Which ones (purchased or home-made) have you used?  Does it ruin, or mash the feathers?  

Photos would be great, but just let me know your experiences good or bad.

[Bob B.]

Yes I do ( will).  I hunt real thick stuff, full of stick-tights and pickers.  My flecthes get all torn up.  So this year, I am using a Safari Tuff Quiver that covers my fletches.  I have high hopes it will be the ticket!

Bob.

[Charlie Lamb]

Jonathon... I almost always use a fletch cover on my bowquiver. I prefer white fletch and cap dip on my arrows and that makes me a little self conscious.

My favorite is a simple "bag" type cover made of camo fleece. It really doesn't mess up my fletch and I give it a spray with ScotchGuard so I can hang the bow upside down and protect my fletch from rain.

 

Lots of guys do just fine without one, but I like it a lot.

[Bowwild]

I don't use one.

I stay away from white colors on my arrows. An incident involving coon dogs in southern Alabama (January 1974-Cahaba State Forest) with a hip quiver full of white-fletched arrows... long story but the dogs thought (I guess) I was a deer with a flashing white tail?

I especially like blue fletch because my eye picks up that color very well in the grass, leaves, etc.

[Bill Kissner]

I use a fletch cover for my bow quiver. It is simply a bag that slips over the fletch and is held up by an adjustable stretch cord. I use bright florescent yellow fletching and before using the cover it was obvious the animals would spot it especially if there was any movement of the bow.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Cat Quiver Yes
Back Quiver No
No - Bow Quiver

[straitera]

BQ only for a number of years. I might cover the fletch with a towel or shirt if it is raining. Otherwise nada.

[J. Cook]

Charlie...did you make your own or is there one on the market that you've found to be better than others.  I'm assuming making one of fleece wouldn't be too difficult with some material and a piece of stretch webbing.

[Charlie Lamb]

I don't remember where I got mine. Possibly 3Rivers.

It would be very easy to make. You could make it from about anything, but the fleece is nice and quiet.

[oddan]

Always use one. The turkey pick up color far away. The deer also pick the white out very easy and it alarms them. I now shoot for the past 4 or 5 years only pink. The cover works great for me.

[reddogge]

I use a homemade one I made about 40 years ago and tie it to the quiver with a small leather thong.  I dyed it brown originally but it is now a purplish color (horrors to you matching camo afficionados).

[TSP]

Fletch covers are a good idea unless you hunt from a well-made blind (don't need them then).  Deer warn their friends by flashing their white tails...that bright tone and sudden motion makes an excellent 'flag'...and so do your light-toned arrow fletches moving at the end of your bow quiver each time your hand moves.  Same goes for big puffball string silencers that are light toned....they seem to 'float' as you move and make very good flags for sharp-eyed critters looking for things that can hurt them.  Don't believe it matters?  Watch an otherwise camoed  (including face and hands) bowhunter move slowly through the woods with bright fletch and bright  silencers in dim light (best time to hunt).  If you can see them the deer sure can.        

Attention to detail never hurts...and it might help alot.

[WESTBROOK]

Do the fletch covers make any/much noise at the time of the shot?

Eric

[Buckeye Trad Hunter]

When I used a bow quiver I did.  I used one I made myself.  Thought it was a lot better than the bright feathers flashing around, plus in less than desirable weather it helps keep your feathers dry to an extent.  Never had a problem with it making any noise, in fact it helped reduce noise if you happened to brush your fletching against something.  If I still used a bow quiver I wouldn't hunt without one.

[KSdan]

I like white too. . . but I just put one white-fletched arrow (maybe two on a more remote hunt) in my quiver along with natural colored fletching-seems to break it up.

[Gene Gillis]

I like to use a cover when stalkig and scouting new areas. I don't if hunting in a stand though. I like to use bright colored fletching so I can see my arrows easy  when shot. They also protect my fletch pretty good.I think I use it more often than not. Its just a simple homemade one.

[J. Cook]

I believe I'll try making a simple fleece one and give it a whirl this season.  Thanks for the replies.

[Smallwood]

fleece is definitely the material you will want to use, as other materials tend to make a bunch of noise when your feathers move.
I know the one I have is from the same people that make the wooly whispers string silencers,
very well made.

[Rank Bull]

You can use a camo fleece cap. If it gets really cold, you can also put it on your head.

[Ragnarok Forge]

Nope.