Posted: 2/18/2021 3:46:33 PM EDT
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From the subject, you can tell I know zero about crossbows. Is there such a thing as a crossbow that automatically reloads an arrow after firing? If so, can you make a recommendation? Thanks |
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I follow a youtube guy that makes them. He shows how in several. JoergSprave |
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Originally Posted By SScot: I follow a youtube guy that makes them. He shows how in several. JoergSprave Came here to post this. He goes beyond fully semi-automatic with some, but they can be unwieldy. And, then there is this 
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Been done before in the great documentary “Hawk, the Slayer” Attached File |
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Originally Posted By SScot: I follow a youtube guy that makes them. He shows how in several. JoergSprave LOL I showed my wife some of these; she said "They'll never stop the ingenuity of Americans!" |
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Not automatic, but my dad designed and built an auto loading crossbow.Attached File I still have one of the early prototypes. Due to his health he never got to finish them completely.Attached File Don’t know why my pictures are all upside down, here’s a picture of the magazine.Attached File |
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Originally Posted By Flynnchester: Not automatic, but my dad designed and built an auto loading crossbow.https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/533696/6DE1A775-3750-4BB5-B017-6893170C3A98_jpe-1832061.JPG I still have one of the early prototypes. Due to his health he never got to finish them completely.https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/533696/563BB3B8-3ADF-4F63-A4EA-5AA453AA1BCB_jpe-1832063.JPG Don't know why my pictures are all upside down, here's a picture of the magazine.https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/533696/3FF83E74-17C0-4815-B283-FA808BC77593_jpe-1832064.JPG  |
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Originally Posted By hollowhandle: Been done before in the great documentary “Hawk, the Slayer” https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/44438/51B0930B-B4FF-4437-8E38-2F31A1079143_jpe-1831076.JPG Oh god, I remember that movie, and the elf with the recurve shooting about 250 rpm. Lol, 1980-84, what at time for movies. Excalibur, Conan the Barbarian, Terminator, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Hawk the Slayer. |