Best Crossbow Quivers

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Note the weight column, because it is the honest story of this category: of the four quivers here, exactly one publishes a weight. That is not a detail. A quiver is dead weight bolted to a crossbow you have to hold steady, and three of four makers will not tell you how much you are adding.

Every quiver on this page holds arrows adequately. The hood grips them, the bracket holds the hood, and none of the four will dump bolts on the ground. Where these products genuinely differ is how they attach, and that is the specification to shop on.

There are three attachment families in practice:

• Proprietary bracket.TenPoint and Excalibur quivers are designed around their own crossbows’ mounting hardware. The upside is a dialled fit with no adapters; the downside is that the quiver is effectively model-locked. The TenPoint HCA-019 hedges this by shipping three mounting positions and an under-mount bracket in the box, which is why it is our top pick rather than simply the TenPoint option.
• Picatinny / 20mm rail. The modern answer, and the only genuinely cross-brand one. If your crossbow carries a length of Picatinny anywhere forward of the trigger group, a rail-mount quiver like the BALLISTA will attach to it regardless of who made the bow. This is the family to shop if you own something that is not a TenPoint or an Excalibur.
• Convertible / clamp. TRUGLO describes the Tuff-Loc as convertible, which in this category means the mount can be reoriented to suit more than one geometry. It is the broadest-fit budget option and the reason the Tuff-Loc is still being sold a decade after release.

We went looking for three numbers on every quiver in this guide, because they are the three that decide whether a quiver works for you. We came back with almost nothing, and that is worth saying out loud rather than filling the gap with guesses.

The practical consequence: if you shoot micro-diameter bolts, or bolts longer or shorter than the length your crossbow shipped with, the BALLISTA is the only quiver on this page whose published specification tells you in advance whether it will fit them. For everyone shooting standard-diameter bolts at the factory length, all four are safe.

Best for:the hunter who wants the quiver on the bow for the walk in and off the bow for the sit — and anyone who wants mounting options rather than one fixed position.

This is the quiver we would buy, and the reason is in the name on both halves. “Instant Detach” means it comes off in one motion, which is the honest answer to the weight question nobody publishes a number for: if the quiver bothers your hold, take it off when you are settled, and put it back on for the walk out. “Three mounting positions” plus the included under-mount bracketmeans you are not betting the purchase on one geometry working — you have options on the bow, and the bracket in the box is the one part most quiver buyers end up ordering separately.

Three arrows rather than four is the trade-off, and it is a smaller one than it sounds. You hunt with one bolt in the flight groove and spares in the quiver; three spares is more than most hunters will fire in a season. The other honest cut: TenPoint publishes no weight for it, and no arrow-diameter range, so micro-diameter shooters should treat fit as unverified until they have it in hand.

Best for:the hunter who needs a quiver, not a project — and whose crossbow does not have a maker-specific bracket to shop for.

The Tuff-Loc is our budget pick because it is the cheapest quiver here by a clear margin and it does the job without asking anything of you. TRUGLO describes it as ultra-quiet, lightweight, compact, vibration-absorbing and convertible, and of those words the two that earn their place are “vibration-absorbing” and “convertible”. The first is a real design goal on a crossbow — a composite hood that damps rather than rings is a quieter quiver in the stand. The second is the fit insurance: a convertible mount gives you more than one orientation to work with, which is what you want when you are buying a quiver for a crossbow nobody designed it for.

Four arrows at this price is genuinely good value. The honest cut: TRUGLO publishes no weight and no arrow-diameter range, and “ultra-quiet” is a claim about the material rather than a measurement anyone has published. Treat it as a well-made composite quiver at the cheapest price in the category, which is exactly what a budget pick should be.

Best for:any crossbow with a Picatinny rail section — and the only pick here you can size against your own bolts before you buy.

This is the pick that solves the hardest version of the problem: you own a crossbow whose maker does not sell a quiver you want, and you need something that will definitely attach. A 20mm Picatinny mount is brand-agnostic, and BALLISTA pairs it with a quick-detach setup so it keeps the take-it-off-for-the-sit option that makes the TenPoint our overall winner.

It is also, as covered above, the only quiver in this guide that publishes the numbers that matter: it fits arrows 5.5 to 8.8 mm in diameter, of any length, it carries a foam insert to grip them, and it weighs 9.17 oz. If you shoot micro-diameter bolts, or a non-standard length, this is the one to buy — not because it is better made than the TenPoint, but because it is the only one whose fit you can confirm against your own arrows in advance.

The honest cut: it needs a Picatinny rail in the right place. If your crossbow has one mounted only for the scope, that is not a quiver position, and you will want a mount solution instead.

Best for: Excalibur owners, and anyone who pushes through brush hard enough that an exposed broadhead is a problem.

The Excalibur quiver’s argument is the polymer hood. A full hood covers the business end of the bolt completely, which does two things that matter in thick cover: it keeps broadhead blades off brush, clothing and the back of your hand, and it keeps the arrows quiet when you are moving through anything that touches the bow. Excalibur describes it as durable, lightweight, versatile and secure, with a four-arrow capacity.

It is the natural buy if you shoot an Excalibur recurve crossbow, because it is built for that bracket. It is also a sound pick on hood design alone if your hunting involves getting somewhere unpleasant — and if you are mounting broadheads rather than field points, read our crossbow broadhead guide on blade retention before you carry sharpened heads in any quiver.

The honest cuts: Excalibur publishes no weight figure (the listing says “lightweight” without a number) and no arrow-diameter range, and stock on this one has been thin — it was listed with a low remaining count when we checked, so treat availability as the real constraint rather than the price.

This is the gap that sends most quivers back. You own a crossbow with a Picatinny rail section, you buy a quiver designed for a maker’s own bracket, and the two parts have no relationship. The fix is a quiver mountrather than a different quiver: a clamp that grips Picatinny on one side and presents the maker’s quiver interface on the other.

TenPoint’s Quick Disconnect Quiver Mount is the one we would reach for. It is a clamp-on fitting for a Picatinny rail already mounted on the crossbow, it costs well under half the price of any quiver on this page, and “quick disconnect” preserves the detach behaviour. Buy it when you already own, or specifically want, a TenPoint quiver and your rail is the only mounting surface you have.

If you are starting from scratch with a rail and no quiver, the simpler path is the BALLISTA, which mounts to Picatinny directly and skips the adapter entirely. The mount is the better buy for an existing quiver, not a cheaper route to a new one.

This is the question the category will not answer for you, so here is the honest version. No maker in this guide publishes a point-of-impact figure for shooting with the quiver fitted versus removed. Not TenPoint, not TRUGLO, not Excalibur, not BALLISTA. If you read a forum post claiming a specific number of inches of shift at 40 yards for your bow, treat it as unverified.

What is not in dispute is that a loaded quiver is several arrows plus a hood and a bracket hanging off one side of a crossbow you have to hold still, and that it changes the bow’s balance. Whether that changes yourgroup is a question about your bow, your rest and your hold — which means it is a question you can answer in an afternoon and nobody else can answer for you.

Buy the TenPoint 3-Arrow Instant Detach if your crossbow will take it: three mounting positions and an under-mount bracket in the box means you are buying fit options rather than hoping, and the detach design lets you hunt the way your zero was shot. Buy the BALLISTA 4-Arrow if you have a Picatinny rail, if you shoot micro-diameter or non-standard-length bolts, or if you simply want the one quiver here whose fit you can verify against your own arrows before ordering. Buy the TRUGLO Tuff-Loc if you want four arrows carried quietly for the least money. Buy the Excalibur 4-Arrow for its full polymer hood if you hunt thick cover or shoot an Excalibur.

And whichever you choose, check your mounting surface before you check the price. In this category the quiver that fits beats the quiver that is better, every time.