Archery Crimes

[nw_hunter]

Every time someone kills using a gun as an instrument of death, the headline is "Another GUN crime." We get hammered daily about GUN crimes. Not much about the sorry POS that does the killing.

In Norway, a crazed killer there decides to use a bow and arrow as his instrument of death. Why don't we hear the MSM referring to this as a n Archery crime? Not enough people dead by archery yet...... I guess.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/man-bow-and-arrow-kills-people-injures-others-norway-police

[Lloyd Smale]

yup now they will be looking at crossbows as assult weapons to ban.

[ironglow]

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 Especially those "full automatic" crossbows !  ...Those "assault models" with scopes, plastic stocks and pistol grips !

[Lloyd Smale]

wonder what they will say about my raven thats capable of easily hitting a 6  inch circle at a 100 yards

[BUGEYE]

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 Especially those "full automatic" crossbows !  ...Those "assault models" with scopes, plastic stocks and pistol grips !

They did have semi-auto crossbows way back when.

[ironglow]

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Yes I did know boutthe semi auto type, although I thought they were of a bit lter date.

   As one may have suspected...like jihad Johnnie, the killer was a convert to Islam..

  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/update-5-danish-man-suspected-of-killing-five-in-bow-and-arrow-attack-in-norway/ar-AAPuQ7o

[phalanx]

Van Helsing, a fully automatic cross bow. Hollywood lol.

[phalanx]

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 Especially those "full automatic" crossbows !  ...Those "assault models" with scopes, plastic stocks and pistol grips !

They did have semi-auto crossbows way back when.

I would like to see a picture of that. Did they have to cock it every time?

[Casull]

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 Especially those "full automatic" crossbows !  ...Those "assault models" with scopes, plastic stocks and pistol grips !

They did have semi-auto crossbows way back when.

I would like to see a picture of that. Did they have to cock it every time?

If they did, it wouldn't be a semi-auto.

[ironglows]

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      Repeating crossbow;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_crossbow

  I couldn't find a reference to the semi-auto right off, but it requires a separate bow for each bolt and employing a progressive trigger. 

   They would have to be a novelty, since they would be of little practical value, and accuracy would likely suffer.
 The shooter could get 3-4 shots off fairly quickly, but reloading would absorb excessive time.

[oldandslow]

Van Helsing, a fully automatic cross bow. Hollywood lol.

Movies have never been realistic. No one would go see them if they were.  From the 18 shot sixshooters of westerns to a semi-auto cross bow is no stretch for Hollywood. 

[Dee]

I'd rather not be shot, but I think I'd choose a bullet over being skewered.

[Lloyd Smale]

or half the movies showing ars and other weapons of that type with a bare rail on top and no sights what so ever.

Van Helsing, a fully automatic cross bow. Hollywood lol.

Movies have never been realistic. No one would go see them if they were.  From the 18 shot sixshooters of westerns to a semi-auto cross bow is no stretch for Hollywood. 

[ironglow]

Van Helsing, a fully automatic cross bow. Hollywood lol.

Movies have never been realistic. No one would go see them if they were.  From the 18 shot sixshooters of westerns to a semi-auto cross bow is no stretch for Hollywood. 

  Which is why I almost never watch any fictional movies, and very seldom read a fictional book, except it is written by somebody who knows what he/she is talking about.

[Casull]

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      Repeating crossbow;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_crossbow

  I couldn't find a reference to the semi-auto right off, but it requires a separate bow for each bolt and employing a progressive trigger. 

   They would have to be a novelty, since they would be of little practical value, and accuracy would likely suffer.
 The shooter could get 3-4 shots off fairly quickly, but reloading would absorb excessive time.

A repeater is not necessarily a semi-auto.

[teamnelson]

I'd rather not be shot, but I think I'd choose a bullet over being skewered.

Yep, I’m morbidly interested to know if he used broadheads or field points. The old movies where the arrow passed through an arm or leg neglected to show the 2” wide flint arrowhead and what it does to bone muscle etc.

[Dee]

I just don't like the idea of a stick pokin out both sides.
When the nurse at a clinic asks me about alergerys I always say; Demerol, needles, and gunshot wounds.
I've had all three, and yes, at 71 years old, needles still make me squirm. The other two, I've managed to avoid for the last few decades.

[Ranger99]

The deer I've put an arrow through
fairly spewed blood like a fountain,
and the broadhead wound was
pretty gruesome.
I can't say whether I'd rather have
a bullet plow through me or a
broadhead tipped arrow
Bad visual there

[Fixit]

An arrow with a field point makes a fairly inoccuous injury. Given a choice between an expanding bullet and a field tipped arrow, definitely the arrow, the broad head, however, that's a totally different story. Broadheads cause massive hemorrhage, by design, and I wouldn't want to be shot anywhere on my body with one....... Serious bad juju!