Pistol Crossbow

[NorthernRaider]

[Mortblanc]

Point bank to the skull and it still did not kill him??

Now what was your point again?

[Midnitemo]

they mostly are and you just highlighted the fact with this article...the guy was lying on the floor unconcious and point blank it failed to deliver a lethal strike!

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if you have someone prostrate and unconcious like that you'd be better of pinching there nose and ubstructing the airway simultaneously...don't shoot him with a crossbow pistol lol

[Skean Dhude]

For those talking about firearms. If you want to talk about that then start a new thread leave this one to the pistol crossbow crowd please.

[Timelord]

Ranged weapons in a "civilian" urban setting, going by historical and contemporary accounts is often at a range of only 3 to 5 metres. Expecting to be able to reload or for others in your group to have a clear shot and then again expecting to have time to pick up and shoot compound bows in that same setting is a bit over optimistic! The big elephant in the room is that by the very act of using a pistol crossbow in this type of setting is giving away a time factor advantage to your opponent. You are shooting a mediocre weapon at best and are using valuable action time to do so. A better defence action or weapon system would be a much greater advantage and would not be wasting time during those critical seconds that count. If a pistol crossbow is your only weapon to hand and so thereby you justify its use, then that is "ppp"...

[River Song]

It may not have killed him but it sure as hell "stopped" him.
Which is the point.

Oh BTW - Happy Christmas

[Midnitemo]

he was already spark out!!!!!!! thats stopped in my book

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happy chrimbo back X

[Skean Dhude]

River,

I think if you read the articleproperly you will fin he had the crap beaten out of him which 'stpped' him.

The crossbow was then fired at a stationary target at close range.

Now I looked at the picture and it seemed to me to be a larger than normal pistol crossbow. Plus it says it was a 8 inch bolt which is larger than normalas well.

Yet despite all that it didn't kill him. So what would it do under less than optimum conditions?

[NorthernRaider]

[Midnitemo]

its about probabilities...a gun probably will and an xbow pistol probably won't and then there's the follow up shot available to most guns thats not available to the xbow pistol