7 Hunting Accessories To Upgrade Your Custom Truck Seat Covers
Imagine you’re packing up for the big hunt or scouting out the perfect location for your blind. Now imagine losing your binoculars underneath one of the seats of your cab or struggling to fit your bow into the already packed back seat of your truck.
Not a pleasant mental image, is it?
The right hunting accessories can transform truck seat covers into a command center. From extra storage pockets to weapon scabbards, these add-ons make your truck more functional and organized for any outdoor adventures.
Headwaters Seat Covers offers a wide range of custom accessories for seat covers to suit your hunting needs. Whether you’re scouting locations or bringing your trophy home, our accessories let you personalize your truck to fit your style and desired functionality.
We’ve highlighted seven of the top hunting accessories that can upgrade your custom truck seat covers. Each shines in real-world hunting scenarios, showcases Montana-tough craftsmanship, and takes your truck from “rig” to “ready for anything.”
Top Hunting Accessories to Equip Your Truck’s Seat Covers
MOLLE Panels
For a hunter, MOLLE panels are a game-changer in the field. MOLLE panels (Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment) are rigid or flexible grids that attach to your seat cover, creating a versatile platform for hanging gear. These panels turn the back of your seat into additional storage: you can latch on tools, knives, MOLLE pouches, holsters, first-aid kits, tactical backpacks, and other accessories using the MOLLE webbing system. Instead of rummaging through a cluttered console or hunting pack, everything is strapped right to the seat where you can grab it at a moment’s notice.
The beauty of the MOLLE panel is its adaptability. You configure it with whatever pouches fit your needs that day. It’s a simple addition that makes your truck feel like a well-organized gear locker rather than just a vehicle.
Flat Map Pockets
Every hunter who’s navigated backcountry roads knows the value of a good map (and the frustration of a crumpled one). Flat map pockets are a straightforward but invaluable accessory: they provide a large, flat storage sleeve on your seat cover (available for driver or passenger side) to stash maps, hunting licenses, or permits.
Unlike stuffing a map in the glove box or door, the flat map pocket keeps it unfurled and protected. No more creased maps or digging under seats to find that forest service map. It’s stored flat against the seat back, where you left it.
Hanging Knee/Pistol Pocket
The hanging knee/pistol pocket is designed for convenience and security, especially for hunters who carry a sidearm. This pocket attaches to the front of the seat and hangs toward your knees (available on either driver or passenger side), placing a pouch right within arm’s reach while you’re seated. It’s sized to fit a handgun—hence the name pistol pocket—but it’s versatile enough for other items you want handy. The idea is that you can keep a firearm or other essentials holstered in the pocket rather than on your belt or sliding around the center console.
Because it hangs off the seat, it stays in place and doesn’t dig into your back or legs. When you leave the vehicle, you can easily transfer the item to your belt or pack. The hanging pistol pocket helps you know exactly where that important item is and can get to it without contorting or taking your eyes off the trail.
Binocular Pockets
(including Middle-Bottom Bino Pockets)
Few things are more useful on a hunt than a good set of binoculars, but they need to be within reach. That’s where binocular pockets come in. Headwaters’ standard binocular pockets mount high on the inside of the seat cover. This prime placement means you (or your passenger) can simply reach beside the seat and pull out your binoculars whenever you need to glass a distant ridge. No fumbling under the seat or digging in a pack; your binos ride securely in a purpose-built pouch.
For trucks with a bench seat and a fold-down middle section (the popular 40/20/40 split front bench), Headwaters offers middle bottom binocular pockets as well. These are clever pockets that integrate into the center seat section, whether it’s an opening console or a fixed seat. It gives you a dedicated binocular holder right between the driver and the passenger, perfect when you have a hunting buddy along. Either of you can grab the binos from the middle pocket to spot game. It also keeps binoculars from rolling around; they stay cradled in the center, protected but instantly accessible.
Pen Pockets
Hunters might not immediately think of a pen pocket as a must-have, but once you have one, you’ll wonder how you managed without it. This accessory is a slim sleeve, usually placed along the side of the seat near the center console, designed to hold a couple of pens (or similarly shaped items like a tire pressure gauge). When it’s time to fill out a hunting tag, mark a spot on a map, or jot down notes in your hunting log, a pen is right there at your fingertips.
No more digging through the glove box or patting down pockets to find a writing instrument. The pen pocket ensures that you always have a pen (or even a small flashlight or glass breaker) securely stowed in a consistent spot. It’s the kind of low-profile accessory that makes your daily driving and hunting trips just a little smoother and more organized.
Mini Billowed Pockets
Trucks tend to become catch-alls for small items during hunting season—ammo, earplugs, multitools, flashlight batteries, you name it. Mini billowed pockets are the answer to that clutter. These are compact cargo pockets that attach to your seat cover, featuring a “billowed” design (pleated sides) that allows the pocket to expand to fit bulkier items. They’re called mini, but they provide just enough room for those odds and ends without taking up much space themselves. You can add them to the driver or passenger seats as needed.
What can you stash in a mini billowed pocket? Just about any small essentials: a few extra rifle cartridges or shotgun shells, your favorite game call, a wind-checker bottle for scent direction, a compact headlamp, or snacks like an energy bar. The billowed construction means the pocket lies fairly flat when empty, but can accommodate thicker items when you fill it. This keeps your gear from rattling around loose in cup holders or console bins. Instead, everything has a designated pocket, making your cab more organized.
Gun and Bow Scabbards
Whether you hunt with firearms or bows, seat scabbards are arguably the most impactful accessory you can add to your truck. Seat scabbards secure your weapons right on your seat covers, keeping them safe, accessible, and out of the way. Your rifles, shotguns, and bows are protected from dings and dust, tucked neatly against the seat rather than sliding on the floor or banging into passengers. With seat scabbards, you’ll still have full use of your seats for passengers, since the scabbards hug the seat contours.
For the front seats, you can choose a single gun scabbard or a double gun scabbard, as well as a bow scabbard for archery gear. The single gun scabbard holds one rifle or shotgun along the seat, whereas the double scabbard provides two slots (often one above the other) to carry two long guns. These attach to the seat back, typically in a high position so that the firearm’s barrel and stock are supported and easy to grab.
The bow scabbard is a special sleeve that cradles a compound bow along the seat back as well, ensuring your bow doesn’t slide around or get damaged in transit. Bow hunters will love not having to lay the bow across the back seat or truck bed. Instead, it sits in its scabbard, ready to grab when you park.
For rear seats (in crew cab trucks, for example), Headwaters also offers rear seat scabbards in single or double configurations. These usually mount to the back of a rear bench seat or along the bottom, letting you stow extra rifles behind the seats, great for keeping guns secure and giving you full use of the rear seating. Hunters who have installed these scabbards often say it’s their favorite feature of the seat covers, because it lets them transport firearms securely inside the cab.
Gun Scabbards
Bow Scabbard
Headwaters Seat Covers
Tailor Your Rig for the Field
Don’t settle for a one-size-fits-all truck interior; get the accessories that match your passion. Check out Headwaters Seat Covers’ hunting accessories to upgrade your custom seat covers and turn your truck into the perfect hunting companion. Your future self—driving home from a successful hunt on a dusty road, with a tagged trophy in back and a clean, organized cab—will thank you.