Brush busting to get to my spot is tearing up my fletching!

[highpoint forge]

Last weekend I ruined two arrows busting through the brush out at the ranch I hunt. Ripped feathers off two arrows. That sucked. I can't machete my way through The thickets as it would cause so much racket....way worse than me crashing around! So, I often have no choice but to push through, sometimes crawling, sometimes on my knees. I use a Thunderhorn leg quiver. Anybody have a method to protect your fetching, that's lightweight, etc.? Just a camo bag I suppose.....

[JamesKerr]

I use the bow mate elite side quiver. It hides and protects your fletchings from the elements and bushes.

[wv lungbuster]

If your going to be hunting that spot for awhile why don't you just clear a path. Or you could get an arrow master quiver.

[tim roberts]

One part of your problem, may be the angle at which your arrows are at.
The Mark Baker Quiver Caddy uses a Kwikee Quiver, and has a more horizontal (flat) angle that allows your arrows to go through heavy brush with less resistance.

 

Thanks,

[Bjorn]

You can make or by a tube quiver, the one in the pic works in wet weather and bad brush

 

[Javi]

Exactly why I use a Cat Quiver..

[Stumpkiller]

I use a JAck Bower's side stalker.  When hunting I slip a poly fleece hood over the fletch to cover the bright colors, prorect the fletch and, like today, keep the rain off.

 

 

[highpoint forge]

I need a bag over the fetching.  Still easily accessible.  I can adjust the hip quiver more horizontally so the feathers are parallel with my  belt more or less.....

[Stone Knife]

Safari Tuff is the way to go, I love mine in all weather all conditions.

[Doc Nock]

PA thought it smart many years ago to plant multaflora rose all over game lands for "cover". It has since exploded everywhere.

I have a pair of ratchett cutters in one hand and snip my way quietly removing whatever might catch ahead of me as I go...

I tend to make it somewhat serpentine so it's  not too apparent in the populated backEast areas I hunt.

Best done on a scouting trip or a mid-day walk back out... as to do it right/quiet, takes time.

As for noise tween plowing brush and hacking it out, I once hadn't shaved and turned my head SLOWLY responding to a flicker of movement to one side some 80 yrd away, but my 2-day beard growth rubbed lightly against a cotton collar... That buck zeroed on me like I hollared at him!

Noise is noise me thinks...but deer response varies according to pressure

[highpoint forge]

Doc that is the freakin' truth! I don't know what this underbrush is in East TX but I'm not kidding when I say I had to crawl through much of it in lots and lots of places. Mix in enough greenbriars and it becomes an exercise in patience rather quickly-forget hunting because you could never draw and shoot at anything. You would NEVER find a bedded hog or deer in this stuff. Last week I finally proceeded down a ravine in the middle of the tangle until I found a dry creekbed and walked out via its course. Heck of a lot quieter too I might add. On a place as big as I hunt, theres no point in blazing a trail. Snippers/cutters are a great idea, and I already carry them in Turkey season, so why not now? Interestingly enough I find cleared grassy areas in the middle of these thickets sometimes.......makes me wanna ambush something in those spots for sure......

[Night Wing]

Originally posted by Bjorn:
You can make or by a tube quiver, the one in the pic works in wet weather and bad brush

 

That is a very nice and practical tube quiver. Did you make that (home made)?

[highpoint forge]

PVC tubing with foam in the end for broadheads, cut out for arrow entry/exit, and spray adhesive over tube then wrap in camo fabric of choice. Add hood and strap afterwards. Actually that IS a good ideer and would travel well too. Reminds me of the Maddog style.

[paradocs]

Steve Catts Sidekick III

[Doc Nock]

Some years back on here, someone was retelling a story in TX of crawling down one of those tunnels in the brush and met a boar hog head on and the hog didn't like the intrusion one bit... I think as I recall, it got dicey, but obviously, the guy survived to write about it!

I'd find some snipper that is NOT a ratchet style...they make a metalic "clink" each set of the blade that seems to carry and is an unatural sound in the wild!

[tim roberts]

Kustom King has a cover that fits all quivers.  Am just a bit curious though, if the brush is tearing your fletch off whats going to keep the cover from being torn off?
Thanks,

[highpoint forge]

Staying out of those thickets maybe?