Man Kills Girlfriend with Crossbow: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/loc ... 72481.html
When the police arrived at the scene of the crime the suspect was still in the act of reloading. A police spokesperson said had it been a semi-automatic the death toll may have been a lot higher.
Coincidentally, Quentin Tarantino's stinker "Hell Ride" was broadcast locally only hours before the murder.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
Did a crossbow have a role in the movie? I knew nothing of it until your post Ray. Looking around at Amazon and Wikipedia, Quintin Tarantino did not have much connection with it. Sort of like a Trump business.
Way back in about 1956 in Kansas City somebody took a crossbow into a diner and managed to kill somebody with it after the bolt went through a big multi-gallon coffee urn. I suspect the shot went thru the metal above the coffee level (was mid afternoon so they probably had not made fresh for a while. Kansas City diner coffee back then was terrible. That is why I had to go to Germany to learn to like it.)
Old technology is not necessarily useless or unworkable. Cross bows have been effectively used in military action in recent European conflicts. The trebuchet still has its supporters for the punkin chicken festivals in Delmarva.
Best results for those contests seem to come from air cannons. The first repeater military rifles were air guns, and the Lewis & Clark expedition carried one according to Wikipedia
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Interesting. I never met a cop with a sense of humor.
If single shot crossbows are outlawed, will criminals still be able to get them? I guess they could always make one. MY BIL had one made using a shortened leaf spring from a car. It was about all he could do to pull it back to install the next bolt. S'pose they'll outlaw springs?
A friend of Doc's, one of only two B-29 bombers still flying.
I think your BIL should have done more research on ancient weapons, and constructed the compound lever device used for cocking back when that was state of the art for military assault weapons.
