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References to the crossbow can be found over 2500 years old in both Chinese and Greek literature. Some of the early crossbows were giant weapons designed to catapult missles against enemy walls. Today crossbows are almost extinct as a military weapon, instead most crossbows are used for either recreational shooting or hunting.

There are two main types of crossbows in production today. The first type is the recurve crossbow. The recurve crossbow has limbs which can be either straight or curved, however the crossbow string anchors directly to the limb ends. This design is hundreds of years old yet even more effective when made out of modern materials such as spring steel or fiberglass. The second type of crossbow is the compound crossbow. At the limb ends wheels (which can be round or oval) are mounted. The crossbow string along with two cables anchor to the wheel instead of the limb tip.

Each crossbow design has advantages and disadvantages when compare to the other. The recurve bow is very simple, it has few parts that can break or go wrong. In addition its strings can easily be replaced in the field if needed unlike the compound crossbow which almost always requires a specialized press for changing strings. The compound crossbow requires much shorter limbs then the recurve crossbow to be effective. This makes for a smaller, easier to handle weapon. Because of the leverage effect produced by the wheels the amount of energy required to hold the bow at full draw is greatly reduced from the peak weight of the draw cycle. This means less weight to be held by the trigger mechanism which helps in keeping trigger pull at a resonable poundage.

A crossbow is a weapon consisting of a bow mounted on a stock that shoots projectiles, often called bolts or quarrels. The medieval crossbow was called by many names, most of which derived from the word ballista, a torsion engine resembling a crossbow in appearance.[1]


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