To My BACKQUIVER!!!!! :archer:
Now don't get me wrong folks!!!!! I know that there are LOTS of differant types of quivers out there,and a bowquiver is just about the "handiest" quiver around.(just grade your bow and go) But,after almost ten years back at this "traditional" bowhunting thing,I always just seem to come right back to my backquiver. I started my bowhunting career at the ripe young age of 7 with a solid fiberglass Bear "Red Bear" recurve and 4 overspined Bear cedar arrows tipped with Razorheads riding in a backquiver across my back. Worrying every rabbit,squirrel,and woodchuck that I crossed paths with. I hunted "Big Game" my first 4 years with a 50# Bear Alaskan and a backquiver full(sometimes more full than others)of cedar arrows on my back. Then came "technoligy" LOL!!!!! Aluminium arrows,plastic vanes,screw-in broadheads(i.e.Razorheads) and the old Kwikee "suicide quivers" and eventualy a compound.....
I got back into "tradtional" bowhunting back in 1999 with the help of our fellow friend and TradGanger, Joe Skipp. When I wanted a quiver,I was set on a backquiver,but ended up buying a Selway slip-on bowquiver from Joe. It was a GREAT quiver,and I was VERY pleased with it. BUT, It wasn't a backquiver.....
I ended up buying a Wyandotte field quiver kit,and that quiver will have been riding on my back for 10 years this summer. There's just something that feels "right" about a backquiver!!!!!
Seems like I always keep coming back to my "roots"..... :archer:
Nothing wrong with a back quiver, I use mine most of the time.
Ya gotta go where your heart is!!! If thats what you like, then by all means stick with it...ron w
a feild quiver like this one? (http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt101/broketooth/IM000734.jpg) :thumbsup:
Here's my Wyandotte kit quiver:
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh472/ishoot4thrills/BackQuiver001.jpg)
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh472/ishoot4thrills/BackQuiver002.jpg)
Doug
Those are very nice looking, I don't want to steal your thread, but I am interested in a back quiver and making one really interests me. Where did you get the kits and are they pretty simple?
Wyandotte Leather has an add in the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine,or you can order them through 3Rivers Archery Supply.
They are tough as nails,wear like iron,and fun and easy to put together too!!!!! :thumbsup:
I put mine together using only one hand! I had an accident years ago at work which required surgery on my left hand. Couldn't shoot my bow so I ordered one of these kits and well, there ya go.
Doug
Yes Sir broketooth,that's the one!!!!!
Matt, Like Doug said they are VERY easy to put together. If you can lace your boots,you've got it knocked!!!!! As you can see from Doug's pictures.....Although being very easy to put together,there is still plenty of room for personal "customizing"!!!!!
Doug, I love the "personal touch" you added to your quiver!!!!! :thumbsup: