Carrying your bow on your pack?

[Toby]

Does anyone carry your bow attached to your pack. I use a sling sometimes, but the bow bangs around a lot. I was thinking of attaching it to my pack when covering a lot go ground.

My day pack doesn't have a any special way to attach a bow. Suggestions on how to do it would be appreciated.

[Indian Summer]

My Badlands 2200 works great for lashing bows and rifles... and elk quarters on the back. I have talked to a couple people who use packs with no built in system for that and they use a product called Grab-It. Hopefully you can Google that up. It's made by Kifaru. I agree sometimes it works best to give your hands a break and have the bow or gun on back.

[elkaholic]

I strap my bow to both the 2200 and the sacrifice. There are enough straps to lash it down securely. The only time it is lashed down is my morning or night marches to my hunting spot.

[twinkieman]

Eberlestock has a attachment called the Bow Bucket. It is designed to fit their packs, but it can be added to other packs as well. I use mine everyday that I hunt.

[luvelkhunt]

I just use the compression straps on my Easton full bore 3600 and it works well.

[Gypsumreaper]

I have the blue widow pack with a butt bucket, I use mine getting into my camp and sometimes at night getting back and early morning, it does kinda rock a bit but fit my Fred bear truth2 decent haven't checked to see if it fits my new helim. I used to use the bow along from promos but bow slipped out one time an had to resight everything I wasn't happy now every so often I use that just to protect my strings when in thick cover hiking or when it's on my pack. I like how it covered my cams and everything and I don't hook strings on the tree limbs anymore. I pulled my string completely off my top cam on my bear one time when I was riding a horse in the dark and it hooked on a tree an the horse spooked a little, it was either hold on an hope the branch breaks or drop my bow and hope it doesn't get broke. So I held on an the branch must have had just the right angle to pull the string off.

[dapper]

When we backpacked in, I used a lightweight homemade camo case that my wife made. It was made especially for my bow, so the bow snug. It had a zipper and was made out of camo material and had a couple of webbing attachments in key spots so a latching strap would fasten it to my pack. It also had a small hole where the quiver attachment on my bow would be, so once in the case I attached my quiver so it rode on the outside. Worked good for me. My son just attached his bow to the pack the first year and went to my method the second year.
We use these lightweight cloth cases whitetail hunting because the laws state the bow must be encased up until a half hour before season opens, so we use them to get in early and also not catch brush on the bows components.

Dan

[Toby]

Some great ideas here.

[bloodarrow]

Is 'on the pack' a better option than something like a primos, or similar, bow carrier/sling? Im not sure I want to buy a new pack, although a new day pack might be in order, just to get something to carry my bow on the walks in and out.....

[Trophyhill]

What kind of pack to you have Toby?

[Solitude]

I strap mine to my pack when packing in and wanting to cover a lot of ground. I simply run a couple horizontal straps thru the webinar and wrap the riser and string making sure to not impact/constrict the rest, quiver or sight. Never had an issue.

I have used both the bow bucket and grab it, both work but not sure they are necessary IMO.

[Toby]

I use a no name day pack that converts from a fanny pack into a back pack. I like it for hunting, it is light and nonrestrictive. I have an external frame pack in camp for hauling meat.

[ElkNut1]

Ahh, there in lies the problem! A daypack/fannypack does not generally have an internal frame for some rigidity. This could be an issue with securing a bow to your pack! We use pretty light weight packs that function as daypacks or meat haulers all in one so it's fairly simple to secure our bows to about any pack as these with no special features required. Here's photos of the horn hunter full curl pack that serves this dual purpose, notice how slim line it is, many other packs will also shrink down as this & yet double as meat haulers without having the bulky feel!

ElkNut1