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BUILDA
REPEATING
CROSSBOW
NUT EMBEDDED |
IN WOOD 5. “|
bear
DETAILA
BUTT HINGE
enbTAL CLAMP—
AEMONWOOD. HICKORY OR YEW BOW
HIS REPEATING CROSSBOW has all the
handling characteristics of a fine repeating
rifle of the slide-action type. In the hands of an
experienced crossbowman it will deliver five
shots in five seconds with near-rifle accuracy
‘over ranges up to 40 yards. The steel-pointed
arrows, or quarrels, as they are correctly called,
are loaded from the top into a magazine just as
are the cartridges in a bolt-action rifle. After
loading, the bow is cocked by a slide, and the
quarrel is fired by pressing a trigger which re-
Teases the bowstring. Nocking of the five quar-
zels in the magazine is done automatically by
‘the repeating mechanism as shown in the lower
detail in Fig. 8. The two-piece barrel, Figs. 1 and
2, has a square bore, the groove being cut to full
~ WALNUT STOCK
STEEL POINT
DRILLED FOR
TENON ON SHAFT
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