Primitive Archer

Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: MikaelMazz on April 04, 2009, 07:38:40 pm

Title: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: MikaelMazz on April 04, 2009, 07:38:40 pm

Many native peoples including Ishi carried a couple arrow in his bow hand. I like doing this, it gives you quick access  to diffent types of arrows and quick follow up shots.
Does anyone else do this when hunting or just shooting?

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: jamie on April 04, 2009, 08:36:37 pm

i do it quite often, almost always when im hunting.

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: hawkbow on April 04, 2009, 09:36:22 pm

Same here always have at least one extra on the final stalk.. Hawk

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: PeteC on April 04, 2009, 09:42:08 pm

I do it,I like being able to take a another quick shot,especially when in a bunch of pigs,without having to reach for another arrow from my back quiver. God Bless

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: JustAim on April 04, 2009, 10:03:32 pm

l also hold my arrows when hunting, even when l use to hunt with a compound bow. Quivers are nice but they always got hung up in thick brush or branches when l stalked.   

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: huntertrapper on April 04, 2009, 11:42:12 pm

yep like said makes for another quick shot

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: mullet on April 04, 2009, 11:47:14 pm

 Usually when I'm crawling or on the Stalk. I'll shuck my quiver and take one arrow in my hand and one on the bow.

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: Justin Snyder on April 05, 2009, 09:48:09 am

Quote from: mullet on April 04, 2009, 11:47:14 pm

Usually when I'm crawling or on the Stalk. I'll shuck my quiver and take one arrow in my hand and one on the bow.

Thats how I do it too.

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: Strongbow88 on April 05, 2009, 11:53:16 pm

I try to do it like that but the arrow rattles in my hand. Does anyone have this p[roblem?

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: hawkbow on April 06, 2009, 12:10:52 am

Only if it is a huge bull elk :o ;) then everything rattles.. Hawk

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: mitchman on April 07, 2009, 10:25:25 pm

i have the same problem and i would really like to find a solution to this though.  ???

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: mullet on April 07, 2009, 11:40:48 pm

 When I go to shoot, I'm usually lifting up into a kneeling position. So I lay the extra arrow on the ground. I shoot,  duck and reload.

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: billy on April 07, 2009, 11:56:04 pm

I carry my arrows in my bow hand, points up.  I can walk through the woods and the arrows are pointed forward so I don't have to worry about the feathers getting torn up.  I have yet to find a quiver that works to my satisfaction cause the arrows are sticking up and the feathers get all torn up.   

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: Pappy on April 08, 2009, 08:27:48 am

I know it ant to primitive but I use a bow quiver,handy in the wood,don't get in the way and can reload as quick as I need to.  :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: n2everythg on April 08, 2009, 10:00:57 am

was trying to shoot with an arrow in bow hand the other night. I do it sometimes but each time I do I have the bow crack into the arrow in the bow hand and it is really loud not to mention it sounds like the bow is snapping in 2.
Must be the way I hold the arrow right in front of the bow.

You guys holding it to the side or something?
later
N2

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: huntertrapper on April 08, 2009, 10:06:41 am

ive had the same problem. gotta hold em tight

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: Little John on April 08, 2009, 10:57:55 pm

I only carry the one I will shoot in my hand with the bow as I also get the whack of bow hitting the other arrows. I use an asbell type side quiver that is very easy to get another arrow on the string.   Kenneth

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: JackCrafty on April 09, 2009, 12:34:10 am

I've tried holding arrows in my bow hand but I also get the loud "crack". :-\

I like holding an arrow in my shooting hand.....something I borrowed from kyudo style shooting.

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Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: Pappy on April 09, 2009, 12:19:26 pm

I would wind up cutting a finger off if I tried that. ;) ;DHe must not be shooting hunting heads.  :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Who hold their arrows?
Post by: JackCrafty on April 09, 2009, 12:57:40 pm

Pappy, take a look at that glove.... :o

The samurai used the kyudo shooting style and I'm sure they weren't shooting target arrows. ;)  Anyway, I think the holding of the second arrow is a result of the two-shot round in target shooting.  I don't think I've ever seen samurai holding a second arrow (in illustrations) when fighting.