Hunting Bow Problem

[ebondream]

So I have the problem that Jenessa  (whom I married) is constantly equipping a hunting bow. I can take it away from her, but she'll gain it back whenever I hire her or change location with her following me (I have the Unofficial Patches)

 

Now, whenever she's actually fighting, she switches to the knives or the superior bow in her inventory, but from an aesthetic viewpoint I kinda wish I could stop her lugging the bow around while walking around the house.

 

I don't actually remember, but I may have brought this on myself by resurrecting her at some point. Failing any ways to fix this, does someone happen to know if there's a mod that retextures the hunting bow to be invisible?

[WraithSlayer]

This is caused by the DialogueFollower quest. It places your current follower into an alias that gets an additional inventory of FollowerHuntingBow [0010E2DD] and FollowerIronArrow [0010E2DE], giving them infinite access to these two items for as long as they're your follower. I think Bethesda's reasoning was that the player shouldn't have to worry about providing the follower with a ranged attack if their default inventory doesn't include one, but it's seriously immersion-breaking when they seemingly pull a bow and an arrow quiver out of their asses.

 

Some mods remove these two items from that alias, so you actually have to give your follower a bow and keep them supplied with arrows, or they'll eventually run out and switch to melee. I know Ultimate Follower Overhaul does it, and it's a big part of the reason I've stuck with it so long, but it hasn't been updated in a while, and has a lot of compatibility issues that I've had to manually solve in TES5Edit.

[Gameplayer]

AFT and EFF do this.