Needed a quiver for my new recurve my wife got me for Christmas. I like to make my own stuff, so I decided to make my quiver. I had some leather kicking around from when I was making knives, so I cut out a hood, stamped it with my own oak leaves and deer track stamps that I made. Then sewed the edges and wet it down so it would form over a block that I carved. I wanted a one pc quiver that I could easily take off the bow, so I bent up a pc of 3/4” wide x 1/8” thick aluminum for the bracket that the hood and arrow holder attaches to. The bracket needed an arch to allow my thumb to still hold the bow without interference. Some 3/8” neoprene rubber worked great for the arrow holder and the points insert in the hood. Some neoprene straps help keep the quiver from moving around and some double sided Velcro holds the rubber straps to quiver and bow. It’s all mocked up in the pictures, but I still need to take it apart and paint the aluminum bracket. Pretty happy with how it turned out.

instead of wild game. I recently got a new pellet grill and one of the first things I tried was smoked cheese. I tried gouda and 2 different flavors of cheddar. I used apple wood chunks and kept the temp at 80F fro about 2 1/2 hours. After a couple of days of aging in the fridge, talk about flavorful as an appetizer with a apricot habanero jam on a cracker.

My name is Jenn Richardson, my husband, Grant Richardson and I created this group, TradBowhunter - Ethical Predator. We are from Ontario, Canada, I have had a love for the outdoors since I was little. My grandfather being a conservation officer in the United States and my other grandfather a trapper here in Ontario. I have been in Law Enforcement for over 26yrs, love the outdoors, marketing and business so decided to put all three together! This is a passion piece for Grant and I...My hubby being the subject matter expert with Traditional Bowhunting as well as an author, podcast host and 3rd generation traditional bowhunter. We wanted to bring like minded people together and create a place to share their experiences with traditional bowhunting. ----------------- Hey folks! Grant Richardson here - about myself... I was raised in a hunting family. I have Bowhunted with traditional gear all my life and started shooting bows when I was 3. I've been able to hunt all over North America and along the way this past 40 plus years hunting with trad gear I have learned that success is born not from tech or the latest camo but from long cold days in the woods and often- failure. Bows and arrows were always a part of my life and I was lucky to have an upbringing that emphasized time in the woods. I was able to see both the rise of Bowhunting in Ontario and the laws and regulations based on ethics & conservation formed- But - also to see them fall apart to an Industry that focused on the latest and newest tech or gadgets to bring wild game home and not the skillsets I was raised to respect and follow. The very fabric of those primitive weapon/Bowhunting seasons was based on the fact that it was harder to take game with a bow and arrow- simply that it was difficult- but there is the truth that many forgot or perhaps never learned. The Ethical Predator was created from those lessons learned all my life. I helped create this community seeing a need to bring folks from all over the world into a community that supported the old ways, from scouting, tracking & the heritage of Bowhunting I grew up with.

I have in the past cost myself more money by trying to continue to make use of something rather than replace it because I just hate throwing things out. Im not a hoarder, I just hate throwing things away I could use for something. So I find myself looking up ways to recycle things I can't recycle if that make sense. One of my favorite things about making my own wooden arrows is I can repair them. More of my woods for my 3d bow have been repaired than not at this point. I've had guys tell me that my arrow is a write off just to be amazed at how easy it is to repair them with this nifty thing. I love this part. I don't even try to hide the repairs, I think it shows the character of the arrow. This arrow has been through some stuff hahaha. I broke one more this morning but I just make some repair footings sometimes and keep them on hand so it took five minutes to fix it when I got home. At this point when im hare hunting or grouse hunting my quiver is a mixed bag of mismatched patterns and feathers, and different size repair footings. And I think that's awesome. I've been shooting and repairing some of these for two years. Thats not an option with my carbons.