When I was stand hunting I had some bow holders that fastened to the side of my stand. They could be mounted right or left handed. I also used the screw in hooks for hanging my pack which could double as a hanger. Truth is I only used the hanger/holder for when I needed to answer nature’s call into the bottle I had handy in my pack. The rest of the time I held my bow with an arrow knocked.
When ground hunting what Steve Graf describes is pretty much what I do too. I’d rather have the bow in my hand. I use weather rests on my recurves and don’t shoot off the shelf like many of you do. The arrow seldom falls off the weather rest, so that is not a problem. On one of the recent threads RRZESCH posted a neat home made bow holder for ground hunting. But I don’t remember which thread it is on.
Duncan