• Author / Uploaded
• superscribed

Citation preview

Make 'T his Powerful

PISTOL CROSSBOW

This article was taken from a 1960 era issl,IeojScience and Mechanics, which is no longer published This publication was very advancedfor its time and era. . B Edwin Love

You' ll create quite a sensation Making tbe Two Cocking ofihe stock grip to a thickness ofl­ at your next archery meet when you Plates by first transferring your 118". Clamp the cocking plates to start banging away at the target with full-size drawing of each to 1I8-in­ the sides ofthe grip so that they are bolts from your own hand-crafted thick steel. A series of prick-punch positioned as shown in Fig 3 and pistol crossbow. In fact, drill rivet holes through the grip. everyone will want to try his Then mark the grip for skill at shooting this rare one­ mortising the plates into it by of-a-kind weapon. This is no tracing around the plates with a toy, either, and should be sharp pencil. Remove the plates treated with the same respect and cut around the mortise edge due any weapon. For the wallop with a gouge or narrow chisel this baby packs makes it making it slightly undersize. capable of driving a 6-in bolt Make several cut lines across the grain to break up chips and through a bull's-eye at 150 ft. establish the 1I8-in. depth ofthe Its power is stored in a springsteel bow which requires a mortise. Hollow out the mortise .special cocking device ("goat's by hand chiseling or with a foot") to provide the leverage router bit in a drill press. necessary to draw back the Replace the plates and hammerbowstring and set it in the tap them into the mortise edges so that an imprint is left; after notched wheel of the weapon's Fig. 1. "G