Bow Quiver Effect Bow Performance??

[2fletch]

Adding a bow quiver can affect the point of arrow impact. We have have looked at it with different shooters, different bows, and different quivers. You can retune your bow or go with a lightweight quiver that doesn't adversely affect how your bow shoots. Personally I like to shoot with the quiver on or off the bow with no affect.

As Joe said, "I find i can shoot better using these quivers because it gives the bow just enough added weight to the riser and makes it more steady." a lightweight bowquiver can act as a stabilizer. It can also quieten a bow in some circumstances. The EFA 3 and 4 arrow quivers are designed by us so as not to require retuning the bow.

[buckeyebowhunter]

I find that i shoot better with my quiver on just becase of the added weight

[bearsfeet]

I fully agree with the EFA not affecting bow preformance. This is my bow quiver for hunting from now on! I had others like selway and great northern quiver they made more of an impact and increased the hand shocked it seemed to me anyway... I bought the EFA totem 4 arrow a few months back and love it. Its as close to shooting without a bow quiver as you can get!

[bozara]

I, too, prefer shooting with a Selway attached - besides I like having another arrow that handy.

[Ken Taylor]

I guess that I'm one of the lucky ones that sees no difference between shooting with my bow quiver on or off (and I'm not too shabby of a shooter). In fact, I probably prefer shooting with my quiver on.

I shoot heavy bow weights and heavy arrows which is an additional factor that might help to explain the lack of sensitivity to adding a quiver.

[Bill Carlsen]

Erik: I should have added, but wasn't thinking of it at the time, that shooting with the quiver on your bow all the time is key. Others have mentioned it. Every year on this site and others people wonder about why their shooting went out the window just before bow season. Frequently it has to do with adding the quiver or finding that once they put on broadheads they find out that they had been shooting borderline spined shafts and the addition of the broadhead exposes that fact. If I were you I would shoot all the time with the quiver on (you can, in fact, adjust to it over time) and then make sure it doesn't affect the flight of your arrows with braodheads. This is the time of  year to get all that crap cleared up.

[ishoot4thrills]

I'm with Bill. I shoot with my quiver attached all the time, even when I shoot 3D. I keep four arrows in my Kanati, always with 3 broadheads and one Judo, year-round. When I'm shooting 3D, I take a back quiver with me and still keep my bow quiver full with the same arrows as mentioned, but I don't use any of those arrows except for hunting.

[John Dill]

Ole Fred Bear sure used a bow quiver in all his hunting trips. I believe the advantages of a bow quiver are byfar the ultimate in a hunting situation. Thats why I tune my bow with my quiver on. It can be a two way street with quiver on the bow or off. But you must understand the dynamic diferences associated with changing a bows physical weight. The same happens with any extra weight attached to a bow....stabilizers, sights, quivers etc

[buckeyebowhunter]

a lot of people dont know that fred bear invented the bow quiver

[John Dill]

patent it too...

[cacciatore]

I start to shoot and tune a new bow with the quiver on,so I don't know exactly how it can change shoooting without the quiver.For the few time that I  have tryied to shoot with out the bow quiver I ain't noticed any difference.I use anyway some very light bowquiver and never hunt without them.

[2fletch]

With EFA bow quivers the bow will not shoot differently from a bare bow. It has to do with weight and how it's positioned on the bow. A stabilizer will stabilize the bow but it won't make it shoot left.

[mrpenguin]

The temporary solution here seems to be, use a 500 spine arrow (charts call for 400) and only have 3 arrows max in the quiver instead of 5.  For some reason, that combination cleared up the issues... Eventually, I'd like to tune more and get ALL my arrows in the quiver... we'll see...

Thanks again for all the advice... it ALL helped!

[JimB]

Remember,whem you tune,leave one arrow out of the quiver.That is how it will be when you shoot at game.Sounds like you are just about there.

[Dale in Pa]

One other thought. When I go to big shoots like Denton,or anyplace else that has a lot of shooters, I'm always amazed that those carrying around bows w bowquivers have slide on or strap on quivers mounted out past the fades.

Of course they will affect your tune or arrow flight when mounted like that. Keep that quiver a good 2" in from the fades.

[John Dill]

Dave in PA

Thats a good point. All bow quivers should be mounted as far down on the riser fades toward the grip as possible. Anything mounted on a bows limbs past the limb wedges or fades will rob performance.

[JimB]

That is a good point.It seems so obvious that I didn't think to mention it but I have seen people with quivers mounted that way too and it always amazes me.

[bshunter]

I happen to like a bow quiver, I think it helps dampen bow vibration for me and I just like the look of a good bow quiver and some pretty arrows.
I have always shot with one on my trad bows(4 yrs now), but when I still used training wheels, I would never ever shoot my bow with the quiver attached for the same reasons many have mentioned here, kinda funny now that I think about it.

[dnovo]

When I first tried a bowquiver on my longbow, I found myself shooting 6" to the left. Now I can shoot with it on or off, it doesn't matter. During the summer I will find myself shooting 3d or stumping without it on, but when it starts getting close to any hunting season, it goes on and stays there. I do think it helps me slighly with the bit of extra weight holding the bow steadier.

[wapitimike1]

Quivers some times effect tuning. I have on several ocasions had to retune because of the qiuver. I have a long bow that shoots bullet holes. Strap a quiver on and it kicks like a mule 2"s high. The same goes for my Schafers tail high once the quivers on. I shoot 3 under so that could explain the change. I'd check the tuning for your own sake just in case.