Manchu Quiver for Horseback by Alibow - Review

Today we have a quick look at a new invention by Alibo, a Qing or Manchu style quiver but made for horseback. Because the argument was always with the Manchu quivers you can't shoot on horseback, it doesn't work. So Alibo sat down and thought about what should we do. how that we get the Manchu archers satisfied? Of course most people nowadays draw with their back quiver and shoot Slavic but they're still somehow they shoot a Manchu bow from horseback and why not and yes you can do this in Japan the Yabusame archers they shoot even a Yumi which is 2 meter 30 from horseback so you tell me it's a too long bow you can do that so what do we have here we have a nice leather quiver It's quite a slim profile and you see the bottom part is not as wide as usual. We have three flaps on the back there, it's for now it's a prototype it's not finished yet these flaps. told me is for when you have you know whistling, signaling arrows they are supposed to fit in here. And the whole thing still fits on on the side so that's nice and a big difference. Between other quivers you know you have this cloth inside and then they have maximum a stud here which is fixed so that the quiver doesn't open here. Alibo thought yes it's a nice idea but we'll make two. But on the other side you have two little wings so you can adjust your here and the tension for the arrows. Quite interesting and then of course you have your metal hardware and a nice strap around and with this strap here It should get very comfortable and very stable here, you can adjust everything so that looks all promising. I said it's for now a prototype, it's not finished yet, but very interesting. Size-wise it's 11 inches, no, 18 centimeters, wait a sec, so it's 28 centimeters by 3, up there would be kind of like 20. And the width, as said, it's quite different to the other Manchu quivers I had. They're quite bulky on the bottom. This one is nice and slim, which I personally like, but of course it's all metal preference. Three centimeters, very nice. This whole shebang weighs 0.091 kilogram. A lot of material, obviously, so looking good. Here we have something either to hang it or ...reinforce things or maybe you can... I don't know what this is for, I can't tell. So this cloth inside is very, very tight, but we put it now on, and it is how it works. Getting it on, relatively self-explanatory, I guess. Fits nicely, and you have here a strap to secure the excess of your strap. And there's nothing anymore, so it dangles, but so we put it down there, so fine. So what can I say? This one, flapping around the set here, you have one, and here on the back, you have this one going up here. Hold it really nice and tight and they said you could even here fit your whistle arrow heads. They have space back there that's quite neat. So I like this idea. But how many arrows can we fit now? Let's see. It's a tight fit obviously. So now it's getting tight but I can open up my wing nuts a little bit to loosen up the tension so they have a little more give. I mean do we need more than 10 arrows? I don't know. And I can continue. Oh, that's really tight now. So we open this one more. Hold it in front. So open the gap. It's gonna be tight. Just how we like it. So that's really tight just so. I have now 14 arrows in it. 14. Most probably you will not need that many. Then I said if you're afraid that they are not too loose, you just tighten these two wing nuts again a little bit. And here a little bit. And here a little bit. And you really squish the arrows in place and now of course you have now a lever there but it's still working. And you can pull them out. I made it now maybe too tight. So now it's getting easier. Was a little too tight but working. Here again of course now of course takes a little until it even the internals get a little more pliable. Maybe for me today but I don't have a week I don't know if we can conjure anymore. I should but I don't have. So you see that? Looks pretty nice. And reloading. Once you do it a few times. Just look at this. Easy pacing. You don't need to move the quiver around or something. There's the nut. No problem. There's nothing rattling. You can really rock your horse. Tighter here. Very nice. So for a while I can pinch myself enough, I mean Really nice. Nice. Let's shoot a little. And obviously they are not going anywhere. I don't know the price yet and as I said here it can fit and I don't have a full arrow with thingy but a whistling and it still will fit you. So you can have your signaling arrow on it everything really nice. Of course the main feature and the big difference between this one and most of the other quivers is this adjustable part here that I can adjust the width here and with this the tension. for the arrows to make them really stick there they don't wiggle and wobble i still don't know what this is here but maybe this is just maybe this one just holds the insert in place that you can't pull it out by accident because it's quite tight you know when you when you make it tight not that the whole cloth comes out but it's it's they're pinned down too so i don't know what this one is but i'm just thinking i don't know So, really nice. I hope they finish this one soon and get into serial production. I'm not sure if I need these flaps here, but it's nice to have, so you can put your whistling arrows here. And even you see that they're on a little hinge, so they're not just stitched there. They are made on a hinge or three, so they can move here relatively freely. Nice one. So I like this inner material. It's really nice. The arrow is safe and I set here and tighten it and loosen it. Pretty good and it doesn't bother you. I just thought these wing nuts point at me but you don't, you will not touch them or they don't touch you. Then you can adjust or look at you, look at you. Wait a second. Doesn't make sense at all but you can open it on this side too. Just thought maybe for horse archers, you know, the knee-high quiver, remember, work too. Without some ring is not really working. And you see that you could do that too. Does it interfere? It doesn't interfere with your horse. Will it interfere with your shooting? Let's see. Of course, then you have the signaling arrows quite, well, it's fine. Finally, I'm not. It's most probably not made for that, but could work too if you want to. That's it. The quiver is not out yet. It's still in the test phase. Let's still check. I think these flaps will get a change here. For the rest I think the quiver works already really nice. Sits perfectly. You don't need to adjust but of course you could adjust the angles here. This is just tied together here with these two straps. So easy peasy. Nice one. Not sure why there should be There could be a second buckle here, but it's there. For whatever reason. I like it. Yes I know Alipo is at the moment a little slow in communication but they promised me that they're nice people. Thanks Alipo for sending it to me. I like it. I will play more around with it and let you know maybe later down the road how it works for me. Thank you very much for watching. Catch you in the next one.