Back quivers and hunting in the east

[Dan bree]

It's nice to hunt with a back quiver when hunting deer but try  to drawer a arrow out  when  you got a buck or doe. About to be shot .  Gone !   So why. Carry so many arrows ?   Hip or a bow quiver carrying 4or so arrows will do .

[Cavscout9753]

Back quivers are growing on me. I find them incredibly simple to move through woods and brush with. In the thickest stuff I just rotate it horizontaly under my left arm. If I am in a brush blind (or stand for that matter if I used them) it is just next to me, as convient as anything else as far as movement. As to why so many arrows, deer are fun to hunt, as are squirrels, pigs, coyotes, and stumps. And they are all open at the same time. I wouldn't bust a deer hunt on a squirrel, but anything else and I'm after it. Just yesterday I came into a sounder of pigs. Manged 3 shots with a backquiver. But... Like everything they are subjective prefrences for some people and not others, for sometimes and not always. Its as  long a rabbit hole as "which type of arrow" or "which type of bow", there will always be someone who loves one over another. Just my opinion.

[Butch Speer]

If a back quiver doesn't work for you , use something different. Some of us use them and like them . Even with their drawbacks. To each his own.

[ChuckC]

for some, its a feeling.  and. .  why are you waiting till then to draw an arrow out ?
ChuckC

[Cavscout9753]

I assumed it was implied you meant a follow up shot? My primary arrow rides in a single 2 blade broad head hood tied to my upper limb.

[joe skipp]

Dan...you have a PM.

ChuckC.....  

[K.S.TRAPPER]

Love my Hill style bows and back quivers in the woods!!!

 

Never cost me any animals and why would they      

Tracy

[Cavscout9753]

Awesome pic.

[dbd870]

I found them not to work for me from a stand. Ground hunting or spot & stalk like out west, I could see it.

[njloco]

Though not enough times, I've been out west,,wouldn't work for me out there either. They just look so cool though, I got one when I got the chance to get something I considered to have a high cool factor, it's a Fisher, paws legs and all. Only problem is, it has to be really cold for me to use it or my back starts to sweat, so I haven't had the chance to use it that much.

I hunt with a Safari tough side quiver and , you can really get through the thick stuff with it.

[joe skipp]

My backquiver is with me 90% of the time when bowhunting whitetails or in the prairie.

 

 

[njloco]

Like I said Joe, very high cool factor !

[AkDan]

you live in a land where the squirrels runs cared of their shadow...turkeys wont gobble for fear of death from something and deer are no different, lol.

I wouldn't use a back quiver I'd opt for a side quiver if you don't want a bow quiver.  

I like back quivers and own 2, wear one regularly, it has its place, imho where the animals run scared like they do on the east coast is not the place!

[two4hooking]

Ha ha......these threads get me.

Here is the number one reason a lot of people do not like backquivers:

They take effort, training, practice, and need to be well designed and broken in.  Like all things traditional once you accomplish all that the benefits are many and the drawbacks become inconsequential.

First read this and get set up properly:

 http://traditionalknowhow.blogspot.com/

There was a reason Howard Hill, Ben Pearson, Bob Swineheart, and MANY others decided to stick with the back quiver despite the availability of the bow quiver and others.

Carrying many arrows has its advantages.  I carry at least a dozen and half are blunts.  Many times I have used all 6 on squirrel and wanted more!  

Speed is an advantage.  That follow up shot magically appears on your string without looking.  Sometimes things happen and a fast second shot is useful.

Stealth - If set up right and on the back of someone proficient one can crawl and sneak through thick brush easier than with a bow quiver catching stuff.  

Flagging game---never been an issue for me as I usually have an arrow on the string and the follow up is so fast and smooth there is no problem.  My fletchings ride low behind me and usually cannot even be seen from the front as I ease through brush.....and yes, I do live in the thickest of the EAST!

You also have a built in game carrier if you happen to kill a few squirrels out there...    

 

[joe skipp]

I always joke around with my hunting buddies...tell them "It's sacriligious to put a bowquiver on a Longbow". Longbows and Backquivers...Turkey and Thanksgiving....same with recurves...      

[hickstick]

I tried back quivers when I used selfbows....never got the right feel or setup with it....switched to a side 'tube' style quiver that was much more preferable to me...I could just sling it around my neck and go, or I could lash it to the side of a daypack ala-cat quiver and still have easy access.

nowadays.  I really do prefer a bow quiver.  the added mass on the bow helps to quiet the bow and make it more stable....and I can nock an arrow as fast as I ever could with back or side.   (I four fletch so I don't need to look at the nock, just get it snapped to the string and fire.)

and ALL of my hunting is in the northeast...MA, CT, NH, RI...would love to get to NY too.   mix of open hardwoods to nasty tangley buckbrush, bittersweet and raspberry thickets.  

 

[Cavscout9753]

I think twoforhooking nailed it right on. Done improperly a backquiver will be nothing but a pain. Done right and its hard to beat. I made this one (and have since improved upon it in small ways, such as adding a broadhead file pocket to the shoulder strap) and it works great. Its soft so it hugs the arrows to reduce noise and is very comfortable. But again, thats just my prefrence. Building it allowed me to make it exactly what I was looking for and at the same time gave me the ability to appreciate it more.  

[K.S.TRAPPER]

I think the starter of this thread was just stirring the pot or a troll, he has started a couple other threads and done the same thing, not responded.

Great picks guys and I agree with all the believers longbows and back quivers are something that can't be exspained it is felt and practiced. Something special about it once you find it    

Tracy

[Cavscout9753]

Looks that way K.S., what an odd past time for some folks and an even odder subject to use.

[reddogge]

I agree longbows and back quivers seem to just go right together but I've never been a longbow or back quiver type of guy. These days I use a Safari Tuff Arrowmaster. But a couple of my longbow totin' friends use them and they seem to enjoy them. they ARE very traditional looking and I like the idea of carrying lots of arrows.

I harken back to my childhood when my parents gave me a Ben Pearson longbow set in the 50s and the back quiver was stiff as a board and when I bent over all the arrows fell out. Then when you put them in they hit the bottom and it sounded like they hit a hollow drum. Guess I never got over it.