Crossbow: Built, Tested
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- Crossbows are awesome! And they're underappreciated. Today I build one and test it out. Thanks for watching.
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Thank you! This is perfect!
Yes, would love to see you decorate this. Maybe a combination of paint, bone/antler decorations, and gilding? Deck it out.
Awesome! Thanks for the feedback!
Awesome job Matt. Really cool and I had heaps of fun watching a pumpkin shiver, lol. Keep up all the brilliant content.
Next video: The pumpkin survived my crossbow. I am now building a ballista.
Wonderful build - I love that you share the detailed information that I probably would never learn unless I made one - like the wire fish. People just don’t think to share that.
I would deepen the groove at the front end of the stock where the bolt sits. You can see from your video, if you look at stills when a bolt is in-place, that the bolt sits facing quite upward, resulting in those high shots. Maybe just make the groove deeper to bring the trajectory down.
I'll give it a try. Thanks!
@@MattsGreatHall Looking forward to it! Glad to see you posting again
Great build video! I appreciate the way you liven up some of the "dull" or repetitive bits with historical trivia. Definitely would love to see what refinements or artistic additions you make going forward!
I know this is a kit, but do you ever plan on making a crossbow yourself/for a video project?
I could do that. It would depend on the feedback I get on a video like this one. 😉
wow Matt that is an awesome tool even if it was a kit. 👍👍👍 it would be nice if you make a video of more shooting on that bow. 😃
Hey, thanks!!
Interesting. I've always thought a crossbow would be a good guerilla weapon. How do you make a well balanced and stable bolt?
Hey, Matt. Your friend SwordSavvy directed me to you since he said you've been looking into crossbows for awhile now and thought you might be able to help me?
I'm currently designing a weapon for a video game, which is of course the Crossbow. I'd like to know what words were used to order Crossbowmen as there is textual notification for the player and I feel "Crossbow ready" is un-immersive, too modern & too meta.
Are the commands similar to Bowmen with Nock, Draw, Loose?
A medieval source with an English translation would be great as well as to the employment and training of Crossbowmen for a general resource and inspiration.
Designing a weapon for a video game sounds amazing! And it was nice of SwordSavvy to point you to me, but I'm not sure I have the answers you're looking for. There are no doubt first hand accounts written about crossbowmen and the orders they received in battle, but I haven't come across one. The language is likely incredibly archaic depending on what century we're talking about. I could make something up, but that's probably not what you're looking for. Something like, "Men, at your ready!" and "Loose!" but I really have no idea. Crossbow bolts were typically flat behind the fletching, so they didn't nock like arrows from a longbow. So, for crossbowmen, they probably didn't use that term. I wish I had more info for you. The real expert on YT when it comes to crossbows is Tod of Tod's Workshop. It couldn't hurt to ask him what he thinks.
@@MattsGreatHall I know that the crossbow part that holds the quarrel/bolt is called a catch, so I know "nock" is out of the question.
But thanks, I hope I gave you a unique video idea cause I haven't found anyone talking about Crossbowmen Drill and Employment and Battlefield Training videos. A lot are just used to compare it to a bow, a musket or see how much iron or steel it can punch through.
@@EzekielDeLaCroix You did, this would definitely make an interesting video. Thank you!
The first sharp bolt shot looked like the bolt went a bit upwards
I should have used a higher frame rate setting on the camera to see what was going on there. The shots all ended up a little higher than I intended. Could be me though. Sometimes I didn't sight down the length of the tiller while shooting because I was worried about protecting my eyes.
@@MattsGreatHall maybe it has something to do with the bolt weight too?
It'll be interesting to find out, since I'm also planning to build a crossbow since 2016, with a ~100 lbs metal bow, but life comes always in-between lol
Hmmm, bolt weight, I didn't think of that. Good luck on your project! Sounds like fun if you can find the time.
Nice crossbow but there are some problems that keep it from performing like an original. I heard from Tod's Workshop
www.youtube.com/@tods_workshop
The bow of the crossbow needs to be angled with the string if this is not done you lose 10 % of the power and there should be a bolt in the stock of the crossbow this is there to prevent cracking from long-term use. This is like what you see on originals.
Yes, Tod is a great resource. Thanks!
Hello ,. How does one determin the draw weight on a cross bow or a bow , before building the LATH or BOW. May you please give any and help to any one wondering and myself. Thank you.