You cannot delete your posts in this forumĪll contents © Copyright 2003-2023 myArmoury.The earliest extant repeating crossbow, a double-shot repeating crossbow excavated from a tomb of the State of Chu, 4th century BC Both very powerful weapons.īooks and games on Medieval Europe Codex IntegrumĬodex Guide to the Medieval Baltic Now available in printįorum Index > Historical Arms Talk > Single-Shot Crossbows vs. Javelins remained the most common missile weapon until the rise of the heavy crossbow and the longbow in the early middle ages. And really the European tribes and states didn't really use bows of any kind all that much until toward the end of the classical period. The Greeks had some kind of repeating crossbow as well I believe, probably very similar to the Chinese one.īasically I think they were not used in the west because they were too light to really be effective against armored targets, and just didn't have that instant killing power which they Europeans seemed to demand. The Chinese made them more effective by using poison apparently. So you have very light very innacurate darts. The biggest problem is that the historical designs anyway, had to use bolts or quarrels which had no fletchings, which vastly detracts from accuracy. You can see several photos of old ones around on the web. Nevertheless they were popular and remained in use in China until the 19th century. The repeating crossbow had to be light, thats correct, but thats not the only problem with it. Repeating CrossbowsĪnd the only advantage of repeated crosbow - frequency - was easely substituted with numbers of wariors - especialy in China Posted: Wed 11 Apr, 2007 7:34 am Post subject: Re: Single-Shot Crossbows vs. They're made to be constructed with the tools and technical know-how available to a 20th-century society, especially since the similes and comparisons involved refer frequently to modern firearms. Many crossbow bolts didn't even have a nock, and if this one has a "nock" at such an unusual place then it's definitely a design worth looking at.Īs for the practicality of building such a crossbow, it seems like the plans are not meant to be done with pre-industrial technology anyway. I should go and take a look at those plans myself. It's quite the impressive feat of design. That's the first time I've seen something like that, all the crossbows I've seen get pushed from the back like a regular arrow. The bolts themselves look like they have a notch cut halfway down their length for the string to set in. Posted: Wed 11 Apr, 2007 1:40 am Post subject: Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head. I've had too much caffene, so my engineering student side has taken over my brain. The only problem I can really see would be the screws. I don't know enought about period manufacturing techniques to make a call on whether or not it could be built.
On second inspection, it looks like the pump handle actually becomes the firing block I mentioned earlyer, actually staying in the rear position till the weapon is fired.
Good old reliable gravity takes care of that. It makes sense though, as you don't have to have a sping to feed the bolts into place like a modern magazine. I found it interesting that it's a top feed design. The trigger simply pulls down on a presumably spring loaded block to release the string.
#REPEATING CROSSBOW CHINESE PDF#
The last picture in the PDF shows a pump that, when pulled back, recocks the string and loads another bolt into place. From what I can gather, it's a pump action weapon. Posted: Tue 10 Apr, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject:
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