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Baroque Bloke
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“… Asked why she kept the Redback Pistol crossbow, she said: 'It is a home defence weapon. I am a prepper I believe you should hope for the best and prepare for the worst. I wish I had another four cross bows. It is a man stopper. It is the most powerful pistol cross bow…”

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...amed-Manstopper.html



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Despite it's single shot limitations, a crossbow would be one heck of a visually intimidating weapon. Who in the heck would want to take a bolt through any part of their body?
 
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I am surprised those aren't illegal as well. Good shoot!


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"I managed to spin and shoot him in the belly with it at close range."

"The bolt I shot him with was dirty because I had been using it. It was six inches long and disappeared into him."

"The victim told police she shot one intruder with a crossbow but we have so far been unable to trace any injured party."

My guess is he is dead by now.


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Gut shot!



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Thank God she didn't use one of those tactical knives, then she would be in deep shit!


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So now we are down to machetes and crossbows? Smile

(And when those are made illegal, it will be sticks and stones).




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War hammers and crossbows. They've gone medieval.
 
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War hammers and crossbows. They've gone medieval.


... if that's what is left ... effective.



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So now we are down to machetes and crossbows? Smile

(And when those are made illegal, it will be sticks and stones).


What's that show on AMC? Is it Into The Badlands? Where there are no more firearms in insistance (or ever were; I don't know as I've never actually watched it) yet things are as brutal as ever with just swords, knives, etc.

Either way, the killing gets done.


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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:
So now we are down to machetes and crossbows? Smile

(And when those are made illegal, it will be sticks and stones).


What's that show on AMC? Is it Into The Badlands? Where there are no more firearms in insistance (or ever were; I don't know as I've never actually watched it) yet things are as brutal as ever with just swords, knives, etc.

Either way, the killing gets done.


And that's the reality liberals choose to ignore, and their laws make things worse.




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Discussion points... Type of point on the crossbow bolt; broadhead, or target point? If a broadhead, width of point, and/or number of blades, two or three? If a broadhead of some type, could definitely be messy! If a medieval point, broadhead or armor piercing, in case armor of sometype is involved!
Anyway good on her, not wanting to be helpless!


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Very glad it worked out (reasonably well) for her. Given that there were 4 intruders and that they were armed with weapons capable of killing both her and her friend—her one shot crossbow was a fight stopper. Since an arrow kills by hypovolemic shock, she could have been hacked to death before the guy she shot became incapacitated.


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Originally posted by TMats: Since an arrow kills by hypovolemic shock, she could have been hacked to death before the guy she shot became incapacitated.


That's true, but I'd bet seeing that bolt stuck in your guts or feeling it go through and out would take the fight out of most people.
 
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thats gotta really hurt



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A bunch of panty wastes controlling England now. Good for grandma.
 
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Grannies of the UK, we need you alive! No one needs a crossbow.


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...and now here's Al
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Link to story with a TON of pics

This is one of the more interesting news stories I have seen in a while.


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Well, grandmas have changed since I was young.


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