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Simple kickstand

Red Beard

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I'm a weight weenie. There... I said it. I own it. As part of being an oz counter, I had to find a better solution than carrying a steel bow holder around with me. Found that carbon arrow shafts cut down (20" for my application) with a small o-ring did the trick. The two extra arrow shafts fit nicely on my bow blind. Don't even notice they're there. To prevent the arrow shafts from falling down on the ground when you remove your bow for a shot, screw regular 100gr field tips into the inserts and sink the shafts into the ground about an inch.
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That’s a great idea!!! If you wanted to finish the ends up that cradle the bow You could glue in cheap light inserts and then screw in two rubber bludgeon style heads or even just a same diameter steel blunt tip and wrap them with vet wrap or something. Yes you’d be adding 200 + grains to the setup but then you could say you went all heavy arrow!
 
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Is that a face shield? To protect you from the death rays the deer shoot from their eyes? Never saw that before....cool idea!
Plus it doubles up as a shield of shame that way when he misses …the deer can’t see his sad face because those tuning forks he has on his bow just happen to find some water as he released causing the miss :kissingheart:
 
Hey can you do a close up of how the camo shield is attached to your bow?
Sure thing! Here is the original:

Found that I didn't like giving up a slot in my quiver (4 broadheads and a small game flu-flu) for the bow blind so I used a set of piggy-backers instead. Really like how it operates now.
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I don't have a flo yellow and hot pink bow blind built for the Nitro yet so I had to improvise to carry a bow stand. ;)

Never did like how piggy-backers take a slot away from your overall magazine so I integrated one into the stand itself. Drilled a hole in the middle of the piggy-backer and it turned one slot into 2!

Paracord with knots in each end forms a nice cradle for the bow to sit in.
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I thought one of the points of trad was to have less stuff on your bow! But I'm just a silly newbie. Looking forward to eating these words in the future perhaps lol
 
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