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My Crossbow

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Bikewer:
I've just gotten my crossbow project into shooting condition, and fired a couple of shots out in the yard:



Mostly a test-bed, but it works; shot quite accurately if not very powerfully.   The silk-backed red oak prod only pulls about 50 pounds, so it's rather light.    The roller nut is hand-hogged out of aluminum bar stock, and the axle is actually from an inline skate wheel... (not too traditional...)

Those sideplates are from some stainless stock I found at work, amazingly tough.  I had to buy the super-heavy-duty-tungsten drills to get through the stuff!

The bolt has a .40 S&W shell case for a blunt point, and two turkey-feather fletches.  Seemed to fly quite nicely.

What a pain it is to brace this thing!  I'm dreading trying to brace a "real" prod.

DanaM:
Pretty neat project, definitely will make people look twice.

acjorge:
Good evening friend ..... I'm from Brazil and I found it on google apologize for the invasion ..... but I'm making a beast and would be able to learn to make my arrows for a 150 pound crossbow to know the project with the reference. . Tamano weight, and how to balance
arc design has a lot of nothing but how to make an arrow................my e-mail   actis.jorge@gmail.com

aero86:
pretty sweet. been thinking of making a crossbow myself

woodsman1031:
NICE!!!!!!!

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