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SlingerDave Junior Member Offline Stop!!! Let me hide behind this tree first. Posts: 93 San Antonio, Tx Gender:	Medieval Crossbow project Dec 19^th, 2016 at 3:20pm My brother, myself, and a friend of ours have started to build a crossbow. My brother is providing the engineering know-how, our friend is a first rate woodworker (and a good slinging buddy too), and my task is to do miscellaneous chores and fiddle for their entertainment.
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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: Medieval Crossbow project Reply #1 - Dec 19^th, 2016 at 3:57pm Can't wait to see it in action
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Mauro Fiorentini Forum Moderation Offline Forge your future with the hammer of your mind! Posts: 3442 Ancona, Italy. Gender:	Re: Medieval Crossbow project Reply #2 - Dec 20^th, 2016 at 2:48am Is that you? That is a real piece of engineering, you could have been a highly rated magister armorum (weapons master) in any Italian medieval town! I like it, very neat building and projecting, great!
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Re: Medieval Crossbow project
Reply #3 - Dec 20^th, 2016 at 7:05am

Thanks for the complements. I show up a few times in the pictures wearing a blue or gray shirt. My brother, the guy in yellow, has been planning this project a while now. He is in college, so we are hoping to be done before his winter break is over. We'll also be making the quarrels as well, but that will be towards the end.

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timpa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Stones in the horizon Posts: 1515 Finland	Re: Medieval Crossbow project Reply #4 - Dec 25^th, 2016 at 3:33pm Great project!
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Bill Skinner Forum Moderation Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3292	Re: Medieval Crossbow project Reply #5 - Dec 26^th, 2016 at 4:35pm Any updates?
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SlingerDave Junior Member Offline Stop!!! Let me hide behind this tree first. Posts: 93 San Antonio, Tx Gender:	Re: Medieval Crossbow project Reply #6 - Dec 26^th, 2016 at 8:51pm Ask and you shall receive!!! Spent today forging a claw for a belt and claw and practicing making bodkin points; I don't know yet if we were able to get much of anything in the cameras though... things move much faster when working with metal, all hands were on deck. But here is installment two.
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Re: Medieval Crossbow project
Reply #7 - Feb 21^st, 2017 at 1:24pm

Okay... the moment we have all be waiting for... pictures of the finished crossbow. It is not strung at the moment, that is a two man operation. ( 155# at 11" can't be strung like a regular bow you know.) The bolts are fletched with rawhide and they fly pretty true. Hopefully, there will be a shooting video real soon within the next week, but no promises.

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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8102	Re: Medieval Crossbow project Reply #8 - Feb 21^st, 2017 at 8:00pm Can't wait to see it in action.
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Bill Skinner Forum Moderation Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3292	Re: Medieval Crossbow project Reply #9 - Feb 22^nd, 2017 at 9:02pm Me, too.
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