I want to try wing-shooting birds. I have no idea how to carry several arrows with large-diameter wire bird points.
I use a bow quiver. These large points will not fit. And these points appear too large to fit back or side quivers.
Do I take one arrow and use it until I lose it?
Can you put them in your bow-quiver upside down? I've done thqt with a back quiver hunting pheasants in upstate N.Y. Had to switch to broadheads finally.
I've been looking at 3Rivers catalog -- Snaro 3-inch and 6-inch Bird Points. I am doubtful these points will clear my lower limb upside down.
Lance, Eagle's Flight Archery makes a "MiniClip" quiver which should work. It consists of two arrow grippers for blunts, bird points, or judo points. It works for 3" points, but 6" points would not work well.
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I was wondering the same thing. I bought a hip quiver, and was planning on carrying the bird points upside down in the quiver. Only draw back would be the wait-a-minute branches and stuff "stealing" arrows....let me know what you come up with.
Okay, I found a solution, but that solution is unacceptable for me.
Keystone (http://www.keystonecountrystore.com) offers the Gobbler Guillotine Bird Point AND the Guillotine Quiver. What makes this bird point worthwhile is the special quiver. What makes this solution unacceptable is the quiver's cost -- $119.95.
Has anyone else found any solution, one having a reasonable cost?
Could you just carry them in a plains style quiver, bird point out? Only other thing I can think of is to make a "special duty" quiver with two sets of arrow grippers and no hood.
We think the same, Jamie. Gripper-only [quiver] support would work for the Snaro Bird Points because the "point" is essentially coiled wire, analogous to a fly swatter.
The Gobbler Guillotine would be unsuited. Its point includes long sharpened propeller-like blades.
I wish I could deduce what the GG's manufacturer was thinking when he decided to amortize his quiver injection molding die costs in half-a-dozen quiver sales. This is not shooting oneself in the foot; it's amputation with a blunt axe.
If you're going after pheasants, those snaro will wound more than they will kill, unless you hit head neck area. I've never been that good.
I like a modified flu-flu, with a 3 blade Bodkin head, dulled down along the edges. Still sharp enough to penetrate a pheasant, but the flu-flu fletching will keep it from going into the next county. Those will fit in any quiver.
This is great pheasant and squirrel medicine:
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I happen to have about a dozen OLD bodkins too. I was worried about using Bhs because of my hard charging brit....could always get her a kevlar vest. :D
I have heard good things about the GG for turkeys..I can imagine the trouble that comes carrying a few GG tipped arrows around though.
Jamie....the Gobbler Guillotine is another head that is pretty useless unless you hit head or neck. Look at it carefully.