Pistol Crossbow

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He did say it was not scientific - but a good catapult or brick would have annihilated the first milk jug. It is all about how available power is transferred.

Also remember that the hand held crossbow is only going to be a lot of use in the circumstance where you have one attacker in a confined space. Where you only have one person, they are more likely to be an explorer than an attacker. If you have more than one person, you get to shoot one person, then the other(s) will kill you to death, rather than group up or bargain.

It is of use against people as scare weapon, but then if you make a threat with it, people will see you as a threat and so engineer a situation to take you down.

It is a weapon of last resort, and should you bring it out, best off to bug out afterwards.