ORIGINAL: Arthur P
...a crossbow is HELD like a rifle but it SHOOTS like a bow.
My turn to put one out for the record. It is not quite correct that a crossbow is held and shot like a rifle. Since the crossbow is far older than firearms, by some 1,600 years as far as is currently known, it's the reverse. A rifle is held and shot like a crossbow.
In fact, early gunmakers stole the idea of stocks and, later, triggers from crossbows in order to improve their guns.
That's how they went from this
To this
Semantics ArthurP and you know it.
Time of origination not withstanding
,a crossbow while held like a firearm/rifle
shoots like a bow....of any type!
Clear enough?
