This one of my 27 or so currently ongoing undocumented projects I think might actually be worth documenting as public service.
Sort of a historical reconstruction.
Idea is to build a simple wooden crossbow that would have been worth to bother to carry to a 12th century battlefield.
So as minimum recuirement this has to have at least matching ballistics with a Mary Rose type longbow and preferably do better in some aspect.
Bow here pulls 60kg with 25 cm draw, the full power stroke 38 ...
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