Off-the-bow quiver options?

[GF.]

My bow is really kinda heavy enough as it is, and I really don't want to mess up the balance of it, so I'm looking at alternatives now. The catquiver has to stay straight up & down, which I think may have helped give me away on my Elk hunt, and I'm growing more & more uneasy with the way that I opened up my finger on that exposed broadhead.

So I'm looking for something that I can wear on my body or on a pack, and which has a hood over the blades. I was thinking about maybe one of these tarantulas...

http://images.cabelas.com/is/image/cabelas/s7_419032_imagetset_01?$main-Large$

Or would you go with a lightweight, bow-mounted quiver for carry and just pop it off when you get in your stand?

[dave-t.]

I have a quiver attached when walking, and I take it off as soon as I get in the stand. I've been doing that for 17yrs.

[Twanger]

I have a quiver attached when walking, and I take it off as soon as I get in the stand. I've been doing that for 17yrs.

+1

I also have a little weight that I can put on the stabilizer to counterbalance the weight of the quiver if I plan to hunt with the quiver on.

However, I usually carry the bow in with the quiver on, and then take the quiver off and bungee it to my stand once I'm up in the air.

I don't like having all of that extra stuff on the bow if I don't have to. Moving more stuff around in the air than you really have to with a deer coming in is just asking to get busted.

[GF.]

OK, so just pursuing that style of quiver for a minute... Does having it on or off seem to affect anything in terms of how your bow shoots?

[Twanger]

If you don't have a counter weight for it, yes, it will cause the bow to roll in your hand, which means you will grip it harder to compensate - never a good thing.

[GF.]

And beyond that?

Some of these deals claim to be The Ultimate Resonance Dampener, but I'm not sure I wanna put a TURD on my nice, new Contraption :D

I used to read the bowhunting mags and guys talked abut how some set-ups got out of tune just by taking a single arrow off of the quiver, but maybe we've moved beyond that now....

[dave-t.]

I've never done a side by side test to see if one way is more or less accurate, but it feels better to me with no quiver on my bow. That, and when I was younger, I noticed Chuck Adams used a hip quiver instead of one on his bow, so I thought there had to be something to it.:rolleyes: Confidence isn't always logical.;)

[Twanger]

I used to read the bowhunting mags and guys talked abut how some set-ups got out of tune just by taking a single arrow off of the quiver, but maybe we've moved beyond that now....

I've heard the same thing, and all I gotta say, is :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[GF.]

Times change, tackle changes. Excuses are Forever. :D :D :D

I'm kinda curious about the hip quivers - I have no idea how well they work for sneakin' & peekin', but the one pictured is designed to hook up pretty much anywhere you care to put it, including on your hip.

And compared to most bow-mounted options, it's pretty near dirt cheap. It blows my mind what the 'fancy' quivers go for these days. I must not be alone, though, or Quikee would have gone under 20 years ago :rolleyes:

On the other hand, the same $$ would get me a cheap hang-on stand.... But not the sticks...