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Re: chinese troops with crossbow

There is a film made fairly recently that depicts chinese infantry with those
repeating crossbows that have intrigued people over the years. They were very
good reconstructions and they appeared fairly easy to operate.




Thu Jul 9, 2009 10:29 am

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http://tinyurl.com/lwa4uw the smaller picture off to one side shows the guy with the crossbow. It was the main picture in our edition of the paper Jim...
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Jul 9, 2009
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... ? aimed at another list Jim ? nb he is a Police officer and the American designed compound crossbow fires tranquilliser darts. ... Tom.....
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... From: "Tom Adamson" <thomas.adamson4@...> To: <ancmed@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:44 AM Subject: [ancmed] Re: chinese...
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... They also fire bugging devices, grapnels with wires etc. The best trivia is that the telescopic sight is useless at ranges much over 10-15m (because of...
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There is a film made fairly recently that depicts chinese infantry with those repeating crossbows that have intrigued people over the years. They were very...
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... They're not very hard to reconstruct at all. Just look at Payne-Gallwey's original descriptions and diagrams here: ...
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Posted by: "Jim Webster" jwebster2@... f_j_p_webster ... I think it's safe to say that if you are an ethnic minority in China and you are fighting...
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thanks for that one, interesting Jim ... From: "Tiberius Clausewitz Drusus Nero Germanicus" <l_clausewitz@...> To: <ancmed@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday,...
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