Heavyweight Crossbow - Battle Castle with Dan Snow
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- Dan Snow takes a look at the heavyweight crossbow, capable of firing larger bolts and for greater distances than it's lighter weight counterpart, it is the medieval equivalent to the sniper rifle.
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Oh that sound when it fired, its beautiful than a girls moan honestly
Be silent girl! Now, hear my crossbow!
Very specific comparison
Ahhhh
Man why are people so cringe.
That's crazy, it's almost like we didn't ask...
I love Kevin. He’s got so much good stuff on his channel, I highly recommend it.
Windlass's weren't slow like that, back then people weren't concerned about breaking them, they'd wind them like madmen and get bolts off faster than people manually cranking them
'96 VR-4 Spyder Seems you're not too bright. A) It's Dan's first time and could have ended up with the crossbow in his eye if he screwed up. B) That is a rare weapon so he wants to keep it in good condition. C) Back in day, killing the enemy was more important than weapon longevity.
Yappy Raccoon Which is EXACTLY the point I was making.
VR-4 Spyder You are right they just wind them very fast and these crossbows are very durable.
Yappy Raccoon he just said that dumbass lol seems like you're not too bright
This is a modern reproduction. Not even the most authentic one, either. screws holding the side plates, bowstring appears to be synthetic, hex-nuts holding the stirrup...
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One time my hand bumped the string on my bow pistol and the string smacked my hand and my hands were cold at the time. That was painful. Imagine if this string misfired and smacked your hand in battle. lol Still a fantastic product.
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The maximum deflection of these bows was mostly a function of the quality of steel and the thickness and width of the prod.
The most powerful crossbow (what was left of it) that I personally have seen was estimated at about 1650 lbs (750Kg) at the British museum. From the length of the prod I would guess that it only had a draw length of 5-7 inches.
But, the bow shown would have been a decent representation of a heavy crossbow, and would penetrate armor (with proper points) at 50-100 yds.
It looks like Discovery would have a literate person on staff to properly type their video descriptions.
-this is heavyweight crossbow
-wow, that is really heavy
"It's a killer, isn't it?"
In that moment, you really start to feel the time.
Did the guy get a temporary case of PTSD after firing it though?
Nah. It wasn't AR-15 enough.
oooh, this is the bad ass sir from the long bow clip :o
I want one for some reason :/
That's thing is nice! I wonder why the hex nuts on the stirrups though
You know nothing ¬Dan Snow¬
alex Tardif neither do i
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Valaar morghulis!
this is one of our heavyweight crossbows .... (picks it up) oh Gosh it is heavy.... this is not what he means with heavyweight...
those things go hand in hand, usually, though.
Paradox
WaW! Is a Killar isn't?
Baggio lol
kevin hicks certainly is
that is stronghold crusader crossbow
"I don't have a shot!"
"Quick. March!"
"Good as dead..."
"Are you sure, sire?"
Nice mechanism this crossbow is powerful I Will shall know where was the shot, target, yards....
in order to reload safely they were wearing on their back a large shield called PAVOIS and chainmail over their legs so they could turn around and reload everyone on the other side wanted this guy dead thanks 4 sharing : )
Not true - In Australia it all depends on which state you live in, As far as i know, in South Australia all crossbows are banned -cant get one. But in Queensland (where i live) you just need an M class weapons license and do a crossbow safety course and ta-da you can import any you and as many as you like. I am thinking of getting a 300 pound crossbow myself some time soon =P
It is not true, the larger they were, the longer they could shoot. Range is about 250..300 meters maximum, no matter how powerful they were.
However, a powerful crossbow can punch through armor, and a light one can not.
i wonder why they were so obsessed by trying to bend a short piece of steel which wouldnt flex enough to push a bolt for longer than 6 inches of travel, when they could have just built the crossbow much wider and cocked it with a lot less effort, had a longer distance of engagement with the bolt and increased hitting power and reload speed.
I image a team of two people could get a very decent rate of fire even with the slow windlass action crossbow. Shoot, have the other guy on and take of windlass, you wind it up, shoot again
I'd love to have a piece like that, wonder how much it costs nowdays
1500 pounds....tod's stuff makes excellent replicas!
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It is the same reason why people started using muskets instead of bows. They required enormous amount of training to be effective with bows.
Crossbow is the same deal, it is time consuming process to load it (and if you use any other spanning method than Windlass, it is also very exhausting).
And lastly, the crossbow did not have the greatest range and the power, whereas musket did have power. If you're hit by a musketball, you're out of the fight, even though it is very inaccurate.
But mostly, it requires little to no skill and strength to use musket effectively.
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The accuracy of the bow is largely overhyped, whilst the inaccuracy of the musket is vastly exaggerated.
Also, contryry to popular belief, it does take some training to make a man a musketeer of any use.
But crossbows and muskets don't take ages of training to become physically able to use them.
If you expect to just pick a random idiot and hand him a musket, you'll assume muskets can't hit shit, as the musket is difficult to learn in regards to hitting your target.
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Yes, undersized balls were used in the military, but the "bouncing" is largely a myth. What throws off a smoothbores accuracy is any random spin the ball might acquire on it'S way out of the barrel.
Military ammunition with paper cartridges though prevent a random spin fairly reliably. Wether or not that was understood and desired, or just coincidence, is up to debate.
(With a paper cartridge and going by period loading manuals, the paper is effectively hammered into a sabot between powder and ball. The ball itself wrapped in the paper, preventing it from aquiring a spin. As soon as it leaves the muzzle, the paper tears off.)
The fact is, that military ammunition, whilst less accurate than 'perfect' loads, is not that much worse, and is itself much better than people think.
There are numerous tests conducted in the 18th C. with units firing at targets and marks, and it is quite impressive what random soldiers with their normal muskets and ammunition achieved.
When looking at history, usually when around 20 to 30% of the own troops become casualties, units/armies tend to break.
With the period tests against targets on a range, 300 yards distance and two three volleys would already fulfill that quota.
In reality, sometimes volleys were fired at less than 20 yards with almost no effect. The key is psychology. People missed much more than the muskets did.
Ultimately, firepower is more than just accuracy, and though armchairgenerals belittle the military leaders of old for choosing quick muskets over accurate rifles, in the subsequent history and even modern times, we se that much more emphasis is on the amount of lead poured out.
CROSSBOW'S ONLY WEAK POINT THE RAIN WATER COULD SOFTER THE STRING INCREASING ITS LENGHT MAKING IT USELESS
PS : the shooter had chain maille wrapped around his legs and was carrying a large shield called pavois behind his back so that he could reload his crossbow without being killed in the process NICE VIDEO :)
You can wax the string with bee wax, just before rain, and problem is solved.
How is this any different from the archer? Bows have strings too, often made of the same material.
And yes as warrax said, waxing the bowstring prevents softening.
Same with the longbow archers, there's a saying in Britain to "keep it under you're hat", it means to keep it to yourself, but it's origins come from how archers kept their bow strings under their caps when not in use to stop the
fibres swelling.
That 2 meter wide crossbow is called a ballista 😁
Try a solid titanium machined bolt with carbide sharp tip. Then you could make it lighter faster and with a broader broad head five blade preferably
Good, very good. Congratulations
You load ALWAYS from the front - not in the "triangle of death". If the bow goes goes off - finger could get damaged.
nope, Special Forces worldwide still use them, they are light, easy to make, silent, and deadly at up to 400 meters. and you can many different types of bolts including explosive ones
Anyone know the weight of the weapon? I don’t mean the draw weight either, but the weight of the whole thing.
That's the weapon whose bolt struck Harvey in the leg in At Dead Of Night.
Lol at the beggining. Hicks says this is a heavy weight crossbow. then the guy weighs it in his hands and says "woah this is really heavy" what a noob lol
I want one!!!
Nice video
That heavy crossbow was awesome. My only complaint is that the bolt used didn't seem to have a very sharp point and looks like it was very crudely made.
barbiquearea That is how bolt points designed to pierce plate armour looked like, watch this video for more information about the different types of arrows points. /watch?v=PWCN7HId-b8
Nikolai Kravchenko
Bodkin point was designed to penetrate maille armour (aka chainmail) and against plate armour it would simply bend and wouldn't do anything. And about 200 yards...yeah dude not even English longbow could do anything against any kind of armour. it's hard for it to penetrate even gambeson at medium range.
He did not mention the draw weight. Where did you get the number from? If you don't have it, then please cite me one example of a crossbow of 1000+ lbs draw weight that only has a 4 inch power stroke. You probably can't.
The difference between 4" and 7" (as in a siege crossbow of 1200lbs I COULD cite you) means an increase in potential power by 206%.
The crossbow shown will neither pierce any armor nor come close to the kinetic energy in an arrow from an English warbow.
Doesn't need a long draw, in this case its preferable that it doesn't have one. The prod is 1000+ pounds and it's been strung at a very high prod tension, so a loosed shot will always be at a very high velocity.
Most of the European crossbows 9espcially late period ones) only have a very short draw.
Very short draw means very inefficient mechanic body. 1000+ pounds are basically only translated into 10% of that for the actual output.
Rather than saying it doesn't need a long draw, it cannot afford to have long draw because steel prods would just snapped like twigs.
"so a loosed shot will always be at a very high velocity."
It's not so much high velocity compared to much efficient asiatic crossbow or modern compound crossbow. 145 fps vs 250 fps vs 300 fps. Do tell if that's very high velocity.
You know nothing, Dan Snow.
***** Dan could easily kick your fat ass in a fistfight so you had better keep your insults inside your dark mind where they belong.
Yappy Raccoon Haha it's a Game of Thrones reference. Nice bait dude
Crossbow: i am your sniper
Sniper: i am not your sniper
Artcher: i need a windlass to reload My sniper
Windlass: you dont need me, you need a magazine to load a sniper
Artcher: i mean My crossbow
Windlass: oh ok take me then
Crossbow: smock! Oh No i just killed a human
Looks great, but the one thing that puts me off are the threaded pieces and nuts on the stirrup - not very authentic. My 'Johanna' crossbow from Crossbow King is perfect down to the detail. Not cheap, but a maginificent weapon at £360
So Nice
its a killer indeed :o magnificent~
How you shoot down from a castle wall ? Doesnt bolt fall from the crossbow ?
+İnebolu Balıkçısı there are crossbows that have a piece of metal that extends over the release mechanism and clamps the bolt down.
www.medievalcrossbow.co.uk/image/cache/catalog/3monica/6-800x600.jpg
+İnebolu Balıkçısı
Alternatively to the above you simply held the bolt down with your thumb. You had to do so lightly however else the bolt would take some of your skin with it when loosed.
them crossbows were great :) just need 2 man crew two crossbows one to reload while another shooting and this kind of setup working out great :)
Yes, it was so good in the sieges. Imagine, when you have only longbowmen, or melee soldiers, women and children do nothing. But when you have crossbows, they all can shoot, and reload. You can get much power from it. It was killing knights and experienced warriors, cause able to penetrate armor at closer distance, that's why some Popes called it hellish device, and encourages christians to stop using crossbows in battle (they meant heavy crossbows, light crossbows was not such threat). (funny thing is, they should encourage them to stop fight at all)
So basically hand held ballista.. Not even surpriced they are illegal in most countries. TBH the best impact comes from the bullet itself. It must be heavy tipped and hard to cut sheet metal. Obsidian tipped crossbowbolts or tool steel tipped bolts would have been the best for the money on middle ages but if you wear really good leather armour you would survive against flint tipped arrow.
He's gonna become a minecraft Pilliger
i want one.how do i get one
First get a job. Just a joke. but try New World Arbalest.
michael cote nobody is going to give me one evan if there is any jobs.which there isnt..most of my fellow cleaners are on the street having to beg now
james taylor I think this crossbow is made by Deepeka, you can find it for 300 dollars on the internet, look for "arbalest with windlass spanner"
MrPanos2000 im in england and cant buy anything on the internet.as im cash only
Tods stuff
Really cool
crossbows may not have the power of a modern gun, but they have reusable bolts, more versatile applications ( fishing, explosive bolt, etc. and they are able to punch through allot of types of bullet proof vests, in an apocalyptic event they would be my weapon of choice.
The armour piercing ability of bows and crossbows is massively overrated. Even an extremely powerful crossbow like the one in this video wouldn't pierce a contemporary quality harness of plate armour. Against modern armour, bows and crossbows are only capable of piercing soft armour. They have no chance of piercing steel or ceramic plates.
FuckYouYouFuck That is not true you fuck. Cross bows have armour piercing bolts that are non usable but will penetrate ceramic plates and heavy armour.
marc fitzhenry Not sure if you're being serious or joking. If serious, prove it You might be interested to read a lengthy discussion on the capabilities of heavy crossbows here: www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=19926&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0.
marc fitzhenry they dont
I am saying that they really do. Explosive Crossbow Bolts are REAL and have been FIRED before through metal plates and ceramic tiles. As well video exists of the testing of these and other explosive tipped weapons that can and are attachable to Bolts, Arrow Heads as well as LONG STICKs, like for real LONG STICKs,,, well sticks designed to poke at ARMOURED DOORs from a short distance to help protect against molten liquid splash backs upon striking. I was not referring to what you can PURCHASE at a store or over the internet if that was where you two were coming from.
How to made that?? Please teach us
It would be much more powerful if the power stroke was longer.
+Fleece “B00ty Warrior” Johnson Yes, but there are some tactical reasons for shorter power-strokes.
And my crossbow draws 85 Kg, enough to shoot up to 200 metres. Still need a windlass to load it.
you can build much more powerful and more handy crossbows with todays materials like steel feathers etc.
Muhteşem
Looks like it would be blank painful. I mean really blankety blank painful. Look at the diameter of that bolt. Big old hole in you ouch. Probably check out time for sure. At least now I know how to build one. But I think I'll go compound action. And definitely laminated wood. Stainless steel prod and foot sterup. And also trigger an two piece cable.
how do you know? it's a fact that they have been used in modern times by special forces,
Нормально скорострельность 3 выстрела в сутки
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Один выстрел в минуту. Зато пробьёт 5мм стали.
'Insert Jon Snow joke here'
***** It's a Game of Thrones reference.
***** It's a series of books written by George R. R. Martin that also has a TV series based on it. To be more precise, the TV series is called Game of Thrones, and A Game of Thrones is the title of the first book in the series A Song of Ice and Fire. If you like fantasy and politics, I highly recommend it.
***** go fuck yourself!
***** just pointing out an obvious troll. also, there seems to be some members of the high and mighty butthurt society here today. you're on the internet, don't act like you're better than anyone, or like rude behaviour isn't always warranted.
***** ummm what? you were trolling, and nobody here was smart enough to understand the joke. so why you're getting butthurt at me for unmasking you, i don't know. but you should probably u your daily dose of chill pills.
I want 1 to try and deer hunt with.
Did you see that guys fucking hands
It's a common autoimmune disorder called Vitiligo. It affects dark skinned people even more profoundly, especially when it affects the face.
This crap will get through three elephants at a time and put a hole in a sherman tank
gostaria de compra uma dessas!
How much this one Sir?
RQ heavy crossbow, takes three rounds to load.
Is he related to John snow
Yep, he also knows nothing
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sorry, meant potential energy and not potential power. No such thing.
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Are there laws about woomera (atlatl)?
Здорово! Есть видео изготовления арбалета?
Well. These things are more powerful then the Longbow. The standard crossbows effective range was about 60-80 yards. The longbow has a range of about the same. THESE things though, must be close to 100-150 yards. Metal armed crossbows are legit.
Wrong long bow had an effective range of 200 yards long when shooting at horses, The range you are talking about is punching through plate Armour, ie the breastplate, not all men at arms wore this or had the same quality. Most had standard quality or poor Armour plates and mail etc
Mulberry2000 also this is the heavy one and very slow to load, of course its powerful and had may be longer range, because of its slowness of load crossbows had shields to protect them
Mulberry2000 Long bow yeah, I meant plate armor. But the Crossbows should have the same range of 200 yards to a unarmored person. It is simply harder to shoot a long bow which is why most of them got replaced with crossbows. 100 pound to 175 pound crossbows can reload without needing a windless or other device. This heavyweight crossbow in the vid has to come close to 300 yards.
Mulberry2000 a longbow does not penetrate plate armor at 100 yards, and very often it will not penetrate even at very close range. if this were true, the French would have completely stopped wearing it in the hundred years war, where more than 60-70 percent of the English army was made up of longbowmen. equally, English men at arms did not stop wearing plate armor in the face of french crossbowmen.
there is not a single recorded historical example of any individual dying from an arrow wound while wearing a full suit of plate armor. the only examples we know of where a person wearing plate armor was wounded by an arrow, is when they were hit in the face. either with their visor up, or at very close range from the side, penetrating their visor (at the battle of Poitiers for example). however, even penetrating the visor. which is usually made of thinner metal than the rest of the helmet, was considered a quite exceptional feat.
what i believe this misconception comes from, is that people might say something like a bodkin point arrow is designed to penetrate armor. someone hears this, and when they think of armor they immediately assume plate. but this is not the case. bodkin points are quite good at penetrating mail armor (however even this can be challenging. there are numerous examples of arrows failing to penetrate mail). and crossbows are exceptional at penetrating mail. this is what people really mean when they say that these weapons can penetrate armor. lets not forget that even a soldier wearing something as simple as just a gambeson (these have been known to stop arrows as well) is armored.
well a longbow is more powerful over long distances due to heavy arrows and long draw, whereas crossbows are very powerful at close range due to high accuracy,lighter bolts and therefore very fast but not very good at 100+ yards
O.O I love big crossbow's
is Dan Jon Snow's brother?
JON SNOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!
Где попадание?!
What's wrong with his hand?
***** Oh thanks for the help man.
***** Could be burn scars.
It's because he touched himself at night.
he turns into a white walker
vitiligo..skin changes colour,some pigment problem
Can you help you bow parchejin
The farther they can shoot, not further. Poor grammar.
1:51
he has been shooting the crossbow for so long that his skin pigments started to fell off
좋으네요
true,
Hmm wow I like it
The power strock is only 4 inches
***** The bow has had its firepower reduced by law because they are not allowed to penetrate over 5 millimeters of armor so that peasants cannot kill off the city guards with one shot.
Мне интересно как они лебедку изготавливали.
you need licence in uk for them
+Brett Duffy wtf, if I can make them with a knife, some rope, and a drill, why do you need a licence?
+SkyDogsGaming well you guys don't have firearms they are band over there
Brett Duffy ? I dont live in the Uk, but its easy enough to make a simple bow, then mount it to another stick, and just make a recess for a roller nut and that shit
No and guns are not banned.
cravenjooooooooooooo not all guns u can own shotguns with licence and air power under 12 foot pounds with no licwnce
i would rather have the smal one
Sorry but they are neither gay nor outdated.
Outdated but certainly not gay.
Queen archer from clash of clan maybe like this
Интересно, на сколько он мощный?
that's got to be at least 300lb cb.
+WV591 way more imo! to need a windlass means its very heavy, i mean those steel prod are thick as hell, maybe 800 or even 1000lb
the small one he said its 200lb (another youtube video but same show)
Amazing n Unbelievable
well medieval crossbows would even reach to 1200-1300 lb
I’m only here because of my history assignment ._.
It's a terrible reconstruction O.o What is the draw length of that crossbow? looks like less than 4 inches. So weird.
someone know the pound of force it can produce?
heavy crossbows could produce up to 1000kg
bloß Fechten
Pounds, not KG. 1 kilogram is over 2.1 pound
or 2100 pounds
bloß Fechten LMAO 1 ton is the same as 1000 kg :) The correct is 1000 lb, which is about 450 kg
yes i know
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sHOW ME HOW TO SHOOT A CROSSBOW? hOW HARD IS IT? lOL
you know nothing, Dan Snow
Safforn142 Dan could easily kick your fat ass in a fistfight so you had better keep your insults inside your dark mind where they belong.
Yappy Raccoon Are you new to the internet and never heard of game of thrones or are you trolling?
Safforn142
Not everyone is a fat slob addicted to TV. Intelligent people do not waste their life energy watching TV. If you must accuse everyone who disagrees with you of being a 'troll', then that tells us how miserable you are with life.
Yappy Raccoon hahaha whatever, you really made my day!
+Yappy Raccoon they do waste their time watching youtube videos and replying to strangers like you do?
Grammar Nazi reporting in. They used the wrong "its" in the description. It should be "than its" not "than it's".
I used to do that mistake all the time until I learned the difference at Uni - I'm not a native speaker. Nice to see that even native speakers are not without faults ;-) .
blub2121 yeah its confusing because the ' is normally used for possessive
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