"The Ingeniously Simple but Deadly Chukonu Crossbow" Topic
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Tango01 | 12 May 2020 9:34 p.m. PST |
"The Chinese chukonu—a repeating crossbow—was a magazine-fed semiautomatic weapon, but one predating its firearm equivalents by millennia. Conventional crossbows, invented in China in the seventh century BCE, required far less training to master than standard bows and delivered immense armor-piercing power. Yet they were slow and cumbersome to load, leaving those who wielded them vulnerable to attack. Developed in the second century BCE, the chukonu was intended to overcome this deficit. It featured a top-mounted magazine, in which multiple bolts were stacked, and a large operating handle. When drawn to the rear, the handle both cocked and, at the full extent of the draw, released the bowstring, firing the bolt that had dropped automatically into the flight groove. There was no separate trigger. The crossbowman then drove the handle forward, pushing the whole mechanism to the front to reengage the string for firing, as the next bolt took its place in the flight groove, ready to go…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Tango01 | 13 May 2020 12:29 p.m. PST |
I have seen it in many movies… (smile) Amicalement Armand |
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