Title is pretty self-explanatory. It's not only unrealistic, but historically-inaccurate. Have it either down low on the other side, and simply in the draw hand. Additionally, as a little extra, where you nock has a lot to do with tough shots. It's pretty easy to curve arrows around corners, and even put arrows on a return flight path. You can add these things without losing historical accuracy.
It's funny, 'cause when I used to shoot bow, I would have the quiver on the bow side, because if you tucked the bow up a little so you'd reach over it when you grabbed the arrow, you could nock, line it up, and draw in one motion. Whereas if you put it on the arrow side, you would be forced to retrieve the arrow, place the arrow, and then draw the bow in an awkward jerking fashion.
I think it probably depends on the type of bow and the period - if you look at contemporary illustrations of English longbowmen in the medieval period the mostly have their quivers across their backs, drawing shafts over their shoulders with their drawing hand.... the reason for that being that archers also fought as light infantry and if you are going to engage in close quarter foot battle you don't want a lot of stuff around your waist
That's true, and something I should have mentioned. I guess I was actually referring to old Arabic archers.
Hey, thanks for this post. I have a MC that's a mid-teen. She's been developing her archery skills over the course of 10 years. I know little to nothing about archery (I've only been shooting once).
