DOES ANYONE HAVE A "SLING" QUIVER?
 

ANYBODY USE THE TYPE OF QUIVER THAT YOU WEAR ON YOUR BACK FOR HUNTING?SEEMS THAT MY ARROWS TAKE A LOT OF ABUSE GOING THRU BRUSH AND SUCH--THINKING ABOUT THE SLING TYPE--WOULD LIKE TO AT LEAST GIVE IT A TRY.WHERE CAN I FIND A GOOD ONE?

RE: DOES ANYONE HAVE A "SLING" QUIVER?
 

Jsasker; They are commonly referred to as back quivers. I use one for 3D shoots and roving that will hold 2 dozen arrows for both my wife and myself. I also use a smaller one that holds 6 arrows for small game hunting and roving. I also use a bow quiver on my longbow. Each quiver has it's good and bad qualities, so I try and use the best one for the situation.

Problems with a back quiver is that unless you put something like oatmeal or sawdust inside of the quiver to keep your arrows seperated, the arrows will rub together, dulling broadheads and making noise as you walk. You will also lose your arrows if you happen to bend over at the waste, like to pick up an arrow or something else off of the ground. Side quivers if you tie them to the leg, make your arrows swing as you walk, creating a flagging motion and the fletch gets torn up in brush and such. Both the back quiver and side quiver create a lot of hand motion when you draw an arrow. Bow quivers also create a flagging motion but not nearly as bad as a side quiver will and they keep your arrows handy so that one can be removed with little hand movement. Another quiver is one that hangs at your side. There are several designs and some hide the arrow and protect them from the weather. The side stalker quiver and the plains or Lakota style Indian quivers are also an excellent design and can be made to completely cover the fletch, protecting them from brush and weather and making the arrows readily accessable to the hunter without game spooking hand movement. If you go to the traditional board and post this question, there are a variety of quivers used by us that hang out there and you can get personal accounts on most of the quivers available to you.

RE: DOES ANYONE HAVE A "SLING" QUIVER?
 

THANKS FOR THE HELP--SOUNDS LIKE MAYBE THE BOW QUIVER IS THE WAY TO GO.

RE: DOES ANYONE HAVE A "SLING" QUIVER?
 

what he mentioned as a 'side quiver' is in all reality a hip quiver. Why am I poking,(sorry Mike<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>) becuase there is a quiver called a side quiver out there (lakota indian style or a raptor and a chief sidequiver, completly different)! I have one and will post a picture of it! I wear a back quiver 100% of the time at the range and small game hunting and hunt big game with the side quiver, before that I wore a bow quiver as a side quiver until I found a real side quiver I liked, before that it was bow quiver all the way. The bow quiver is nice for MOST situations but quite frankly I havent found one I have taken a liking to on my longbows. A backquiver, once you learn how to use it is one, super fast, two, can hold gear and a ton of arras! He is right, your BH's will rub on eachother, there is some simple solutions to this however. Wahya mentioned a couple, also have heard of folks making booties for there Bh's, also putting duct tape over there heads, supposidly it comes off somewhere in the shot, never understood it. That or you can tear it off before you shoot. (mine sounds noisy, after awhile ya get used to it, for still hunting I think the backquiver is tops, for stalking on the slope it STINKS LOL) For stand hunting a backquiver and side quiver kinda stink, I used my side quiver last fall in MN hunting from a stand and had to loop the strap over my fanney pack which was secured to the tree, that or you could use an extra step to strap it on with. I agree hip quivers dont have much place in my bag of tricks. I could never crawl effectivly with one, hated pulling my belt off to pull it of while dangling from a platform high up in a tree, climbing hills/mts and wearing a backpack the dang think would hit my frame with the arras.....it does work some, some will swear by it. Most will tell you a bowquiver is the simplest, I agree in most situations!

here is my sidequiver and a nice little 4pt I shot. well hmm...cant get on the stinking page LOL I will post it in a few....