I’m relatively new to bow hunting and archery so I may be overthinking this.
With rifles, backcountry care is fairly simple, and even if you don’t do it all right, rifles are durable enough it probably won’t hurt much. Everyone knows to keep some type of scope cover on, maybe some electrical tape on the barrel, etc.
With a bow, I feel like there is much more to worry about. Strings, servings, D loops, dainty little sight pins, limb driven arrow rest string, nocks, fletching, etc. Lots of easily damaged items on a bow. Or at least that is my perception at the moment.
So, to the question, what do you do to mitigate risks to those items? Do many people use something like the bow slicker? Do you sleep with the bow inside your tent? Wrap it in a spare jacket overnight? When you are hiking and stop to glass, do you set your bow on the ground? Quiver up, so the sight is on the ground? Or do you lay it quiver side down so the sight stays protected, but your arrows are in the dirt? Or do you use one of the stabilizers that has little feet on the end so it can rest on that?
I’m sure these are dumb sounding questions to the more experienced guys out there, but it just doesn’t seem to be discussed much like it is with rifles.
Thanks for any input.
With rifles, backcountry care is fairly simple, and even if you don’t do it all right, rifles are durable enough it probably won’t hurt much. Everyone knows to keep some type of scope cover on, maybe some electrical tape on the barrel, etc.
With a bow, I feel like there is much more to worry about. Strings, servings, D loops, dainty little sight pins, limb driven arrow rest string, nocks, fletching, etc. Lots of easily damaged items on a bow. Or at least that is my perception at the moment.
So, to the question, what do you do to mitigate risks to those items? Do many people use something like the bow slicker? Do you sleep with the bow inside your tent? Wrap it in a spare jacket overnight? When you are hiking and stop to glass, do you set your bow on the ground? Quiver up, so the sight is on the ground? Or do you lay it quiver side down so the sight stays protected, but your arrows are in the dirt? Or do you use one of the stabilizers that has little feet on the end so it can rest on that?
I’m sure these are dumb sounding questions to the more experienced guys out there, but it just doesn’t seem to be discussed much like it is with rifles.
Thanks for any input.