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The Crossbow: a Terrible SHTF Weapon Choice.
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| 12/10/2013
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Posted on 12/10/2013 5:12:07 AM PST by Carriage Hill
"Unless you're fighting zombies, skip the crossbow."
While many preppers are busy stockpiling hordes of rifles, shotguns, and handguns plus cases of ammunition for a looming doomsday scenario, others are thinking more broadly about other weapons options. Thanks to the success of AMC’s The Walking Dead, one of the options that has become popular with preppers is the crossbow. On TWD, one of the main characters (Norman Reedus’s Daryl Dixon) uses a crossbow with quite an astonishing amount of lethal success. But is this even remotely realistic? Let’s take a look at this bolt (arrow) shooting implement to see its implications as a true SHTF tool.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Hobbies; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; crossbow; shtf
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I gotta try one of those things, someday.
To: ConjunctionJunction; Kartographer
I don’t know if that URL’s newsletter publication is on FR’s “excerpt only” list or not...
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:14:28 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: carriage_hill
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:15:43 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: carriage_hill
Never fired a crossbow but all knowledge I have of them indicates to me that they are short-ranged and not terribly accurate. I could not trust one with any kind of shot other than those at close distance.
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:17:33 AM PST
by
FAA
To: carriage_hill
Fighting “zombies”... yeah, but we WILL be fighting “zombies”...
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:18:55 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: FAA
I sure won’t be giving-up my AR-10s or AR-15s, 12ga, 1911s or Beowulf .50cal for it.
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:21:18 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: carriage_hill
It’s the silent killer.
I would and DO have one in my stock pile.
They have come along way baby!
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:21:43 AM PST
by
Johnny_cash
(10 out of 10 idiots voted for 0Bama!)
To: Johnny_cash
Years ago, Stallone used one in a “Rambo” movie to shoot VC out of guard towers in a prison camp, during a POW rescue. The last anything with an arrow I shot was a simple bow, in Scout camp, back in the late-50s.
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:24:47 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: Johnny_cash
Reload time is much slower than a handgun. I guess the “ammo” be reusable is a big plus though.
To: carriage_hill
Just thinking - it would be a great vampire weapon, if the bolts were made of wood...
Gotta hit ‘em just right, though.
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:27:29 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: carriage_hill
Get a 9mm or .45 upper for one of your AR15s and then buy a suppressor.Or even better,get a .300 Whisper upper.
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:28:40 AM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: MrB
Get some silver bolts for werewolves too.
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:29:38 AM PST
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Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: carriage_hill; Johnny_cash; Salamander
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:30:59 AM PST
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: carriage_hill
I have one kicking around. When I used to shoot it, I was good out to 40-50 yards like the author stated. It has its place in a SHTF scenario I suppose but if I was hoofing it, I doubt it would find its way into my load plan. It’s very heavy and too limited in its usefulness and there are much smaller equally lethal alternatives available.
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:32:33 AM PST
by
RC one
To: FAA
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:32:54 AM PST
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JoeProBono
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To: FAA
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:36:13 AM PST
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JoeProBono
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To: Farmer Dean
I have several Class III select-fire/suppressed AR-15s & AR-10s, in my
gunsafe.
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:37:07 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: FAA
They do have a single virtue: they’re QUIET. . .
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:37:08 AM PST
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Salgak
(http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
12/10/2013 5:38:32 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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