![]() ![]() I have had more follow-up shots at game now that I exclusively use the back quiver. Once an individual is proficient, a second arrow can be smoothly and fluidly back on the string and ready for action without looking or even consciously thinking about it. Speed and capacity are two other advantages for which the back quiver gets the nod. Rotate the quiver under your arm for going through thick brush. In my opinion, the fewer things you have hanging off your bow for hunting purposes, the better off you will be. If a bow quiver were more conducive to accuracy, Olympic archers would have them on their bows. This imbalance can be a detriment to accurate shooting and the proper feel of the bow. The result is to ruin the balance that the bowyer intended. A bow quiver adds weight, and it does so lopsidedly. Longbows especially are by design light in mass and delicate in the hand. The most noticeable advantage of the back quiver is removal of the quiver from the bow. In fact, the back quiver can provide many advantages to the hunter. All of these issues can be resolved with a properly constructed, designed, and well broken in hunting quiver along with the time to become proficient and skilled in the use of the device. I am not flexible enough to remove my arrows without contortions. The area I hunt is too thick to go through the woods quietly. My exposed arrows catch on every twig and branch. Their reasons are numerous: My arrows rattle around and make noise. The movement he caught was me reaching for my quiver and attaching that quiver back to my bow.Many archers like to use a back quiver for roving or the 3-D range, but dislike them for hunting. ![]() Yep, a glance through my binos confirmed it was a monster 10-point. Just as I locked the quiver back onto my bow, I heard a deer blow and bound off. My last mission before climbing down was to put my arrow back in my quiver and then attach my quiver to my bow. Lesson learned - but not really.Īfter climbing down and retrieving my quiver and at-the-base-of-my-tree arrow, I climbed back up and made the decision to pull an all-day sit.Īs the sun sank and shooting light faded, I started loading up my pack and prepping for the descent. Obviously, the buck walked away unscathed. Trying to keep an eye on the approaching buck and grab an arrow from my detached quiver, I accidently knocked the entire quiver out of the tree. Seconds later, I turned in my stand to see a wide 8-point making his way toward my stand. After retrieving my new projectile, I bumped my elbow on the tree and the arrow fell to the ground below, but not before banging and clanging against my aluminum treestand. Slightly panicked, not wanting the opportunity to slide through my fingers, I reached around the tree to grab another arrow. The doe, mostly unalarmed, bounded a few yards and resumed her steady gate. Unfortunately, I didn’t take notice of a low-hanging branch, and my arrow sailed harmlessly over her back. I could already taste her backstraps on the grill. The unsuspecting doe made her way through a maze of burning red maples. Sadly, during one October day in 2017, disaster struck. Why did I make the switch? Most every whitetail hunter I knew hunted that way, and I did feel that removing the quiver from my bow and attaching it to the tree ushered in a heightened sense of accuracy. ![]() Years later, I started hunting with my quiver detached from my bow while 20-feet up. An hour into that hunt, I skewered a respectable Land of Lincoln whitetail. Being a western bowhunter, that was just the norm for me. ![]() When I climbed into my first-ever whitetail stand in the great state of Illinois, my quiver remained attached to my vertical rig. ![]()
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