02-24-2005, 11:37 AM
Maybe but I think that it was just the opposite: i.e. only the Army had resources as to 'mass-produce' such expensive items...<br>
The 'toy' looks much like I had imagined from the scanty Elginhaugh remains. Notwithstanding I see the MG42-like butt at the rear and I can see the hand of Christian Miks behind the reconstruction. His reconstructed cheiroballistra exhibits the same feature and that is not, IMHO, logic. Butts were developed for firearms with recoil and catapults and crossbows have no recoil at all. Of course, we haven't got the preserved stock of any manuballista but mediaeval crossbows -no matter how heavy they were- were shot simply tucking the straight ends of their stocks under the armpit.<br>
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The 'toy' looks much like I had imagined from the scanty Elginhaugh remains. Notwithstanding I see the MG42-like butt at the rear and I can see the hand of Christian Miks behind the reconstruction. His reconstructed cheiroballistra exhibits the same feature and that is not, IMHO, logic. Butts were developed for firearms with recoil and catapults and crossbows have no recoil at all. Of course, we haven't got the preserved stock of any manuballista but mediaeval crossbows -no matter how heavy they were- were shot simply tucking the straight ends of their stocks under the armpit.<br>
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