Archery quivers with bow attachment

As part of the Armour, I made some horn clip piece’s which when sewn onto the Quiver enabled the bow to be attached unstrung and strung. I am not sure if this could be done with other types of bows which have profiles but with my horse bow which is rectangular with flat widths and covered in leather, the horn pieces seemed to work very well keeping hold of the bow when not in use but still allowing quick removal when in use.

I liked the idea so much that I used the same idea on my hip quiver for field archery - only this time I just used one longer horn piece and still holds the bow quite firmly. Below are pictures of the these horn pieces in action on the armour quiver and my hip quiver.

I can upon the idea for these horn pieces after much thought of how to attach the bow on the armour quiver - regardless of the fact that the armour is for a kid who may never actually ride a horse let alone use the bow while riding (despite the enthusiam of such a thing from one of our horse owner friends) I tried to see the attaching of the bow from the perspective of a mongol archer or more importantly from my perspective and how I might like the bow to be stored enabling not only a secure way to keep the bow while not in use but also when it may be called into use.

Leather straps were of course the first idea but they would mean fasteners in some fashion or loops of leather both meaning that the whole quiver would have to be removed or someone else would have to remove it for me, so hence the horn clips, could use plastic or metal but horn seemed more in keeping with the whole armour.

I did try stream bending the tops of horn (which are fairly thin) but the result kept breaking, so in the end I just sawed rectangular blocks from the tips of horn then using a wood drill bit the same diameter as the thickness of the bow limbs, first drilled a hole then sawed out a groove, smoothed down and polished. On the armour quiver I attached the clips by rawhide, but on my quiver I used leather lace. Quite simple really, probably not unique but they do a great job and leave both my hands free so I still use them to alaberate on all those high tales of adventure! 

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