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Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey | 400 pages | 26 Mar 2009 | Dover Publications Inc. | 9780486287201 | English | New York, United States Crossbow by Dayle Campbell Gaetz

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about The Book of the Crossbow problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Crossbow by Dayle Campbell Gaetz. Fourteen-year-old Matt has only one goal in life: to become a hermit. He has no use for school, but he loves the solitude of the forest. When he hikes up to the cabin he built for The Book of the Crossbow, he discovers a mysterious stranger named Forrest has moved in. At first Matt doesn't connect Forrest's appearance with the rash of local robberies. Forrest seems to be the perfect hermit Fourteen-year-old Matt has only one goal in life: to become a hermit. Forrest seems to be the perfect hermit, and he teaches Matt the skills he needs to achieve his goal, including how to hunt with a crossbow. But when Forrest tries to kill an endangered Roosevelt elk, Matt questions the ethics of his new friend. When Matt discovers a stolen rifle in his cabin, he finds himself trapped in a dangerous situation. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 5. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about CrossbowThe Book of the Crossbow sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Crossbow. Oct 10, Landon Dowell rated The Book of the Crossbow really liked it. I like this book. I thought it was very interesting and it kept me hooked to the end. It kept going back and fourth of who you thought was the victim. The main character is Matt and he tries to find how it is on his own. Then he also has some other problems he has to try to take care of while doing it. I really liked this book because i love book where kids have to survive on there own and see what they do and how they do it. View 2 comments. Dec 09, Todd rated it it was amazing. I thought that Crossbow was a really good book. It kept me interested throughout the whole book. Its a good read for people who like hunting and being outdoors a lot. It took me 3 days to read the whole thing which is good for me even though it was kind of a short book. Its a good book so to whoever has not read this book i suggest you do if you like short stories and outdoorsy type things. Alex rated it it was ok Oct 25, Sadie Van Dyke The Book of the Crossbow it it was ok Dec 21, Morgan rated The Book of the Crossbow it was amazing Oct 26, P3ChristianL rated it liked it Mar 16, Afroza rated it it was amazing Sep 24, Gagan rated it liked it May 19, Kajaun Sears rated it really liked it Sep 29, Ryan Kane rated it it was ok Jun 03, Challis rated it it was ok Jul 28, Dylan Hensley rated it it was amazing Jan 17, Corydrellack rated it really liked it Sep 22, Haley B rated it liked it Oct 02, Alex Wilkinson rated it liked it Nov 21, Deborah rated it liked it Mar 31, Austin Mcguire rated it it was amazing Aug 25, Ardie rated it really liked it Jul 23, Joti rated it liked it Oct 14, Yoits rated it really liked it Feb 23, Block 4 rated it really liked it Apr 26, AbsentLibrarian rated it liked it Dec 06, Sarah rated it liked it Dec 20, Tristen Simpson rated it really The Book of the Crossbow it Oct 01, Minh rated it it was amazing Oct 31, Amanda rated it liked it Mar 07, Johan rated it it was amazing Sep 12, Buk Lau rated it it was amazing Jun 22, P5connorl rated it it was amazing Sep 10, PRHS added it Jun 06, Diamond marked it as to-read May 03, Morgan added it Oct 05, Aaran added it Jan 09, Ata Yorgun is currently reading it May 24, Thomas marked it as to-read Oct 17, Avery marked it as to-read Apr 05, Evan Wall marked it as to-read May 07, David marked it as to-read Sep 25, Megan W added it Sep 27, Bridgette marked it as to-read Nov The Book of the Crossbow, Cody marked it as to-read Dec 01, Abby marked it as to-read Dec 31, Js is currently reading it Jan 23, SME Library added it Jan 29, Js is currently reading it Mar 04, Daniel Chen marked it as to-read May 06, Berkayonue marked it as to-read May 27, Realistic Fiction. About Dayle Campbell Gaetz. Dayle Campbell Gaetz. The Book Of The Crossbow – PDF Download

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The Crossbow > Its Construction, History and Management > by Sir Ralph Payne- Gallwey It is not clear where and when the crossbow originated, but it is believed to have appeared in China and Europe around the 7th to 5th centuries BC. In China the crossbow was one of the primary military weapons from the until the end of the Han dynastywhen armies composed of up to 30 to 50 percent crossbowmen were not unheard of. The crossbow lost much of its popularity after the fall of the . One Tang dynasty source recommends a bow to crossbow ratio of five to one as well as the utilization of the countermarch to make up for the crossbow's lack of speed. Even as late as the 17th century, military theorists were still recommending it for wider military adoption, but production had already shifted in favor of firearms and traditional composite bows. In Europe a crossbow known as the was described by Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century AD. He believed it was the forerunner of the catapultwhich places its appearance sometime prior to the 4th century BC. Pictish imagery dated between the 6th and 9th centuries AD do show what appear The Book of the Crossbow be , but only for hunting, and not military usage. It's not clear how widespread crossbows were in Europe prior to the medieval period or if they were even used for warfare. The The Book of the Crossbow body of evidence and the context they provide point to the fact that the ancient European crossbow was primarily a hunting tool or minor siege weapon. An assortment of other ancient European bolt throwers exist such as the ballistabut these were torsion engines and are not considered crossbows. Crossbows are not mentioned in European sources again until as a French weapon during the siege of Senlis. During the 16th century military crossbows in Europe were superseded by cannons and muskets. Hunters continued to carry crossbows for another years due to its silence. There is a theory that medieval European crossbows originate from China but The Book of the Crossbow differences exist The Book of the Crossbow the two trigger mechanisms used in European and Chinese crossbows. A crossbowman or crossbow-maker is sometimes called an arbalist or . Arrowbolt and quarrel are all suitable terms for crossbow . The Book of the Crossbow lathalso called the prodis the bow of the crossbow. The Book of the Crossbow to W. Peterson, the prod came into usage in the 19th century as a result of mistranslating rodd in a 16th-century list of crossbow effects. The stock is the wooden body on which the bow is mounted, although the medieval tiller is also used. The lock refers to the release mechanism, including the string, sears, trigger lever, and housing. In terms of archaeological evidence, crossbow locks made of cast bronze have been found in China dating to around BC. A Western-Han mathematician The Book of the Crossbow music theorist, Jing Fang BCcompared the moon to the shape of a round crossbow bullet. The earliest Chinese documents mentioning a crossbow were texts from the 4th to 3rd centuries BC attributed to the followers of Mozi. This source refers to the use of a giant crossbow between the 6th and 5th centuries BC, corresponding to the late Spring and Autumn Period. Sun Tzu 's The Art of War first appearance dated between BC to BC [16] refers to the characteristics and use of crossbows in chapters 5 and 12 respectively, [17] and compares a drawn crossbow to 'might. The state of favorited elite armoured crossbow units known for their endurance, and were capable of marching km 'without resting. The Huainanzi advises its readers not to use crossbows in marshland where the surface is soft and it is hard to arm the crossbow with the foot. When shooting, the body should be as steady as a board, and the head mobile like an egg [on a table]; the left foot [forward] and the right foot perpendicular to it; the left hand as if leaning against a branch, the right hand as if embracing a child. Then grip the crossbow and take a sight on the enemy, hold the breath The Book of the Crossbow swallow, then breathe out as soon as you have released [the arrow]; in this way The Book of the Crossbow will be unperturbable. Thus after deep concentration, the two things separate, the [arrow] going, and the [bow] staying. When the right hand moves the trigger [in releasing the arrow] the left hand should not know it. One body, yet different functions [of parts], like a man and a girl well matched; such is the of holding the crossbow and shooting accurately. It's clear from surviving inventory lists in Gansu and Xinjiang that the crossbow was greatly favored by the Han dynasty. For example, in one batch of slips there are only two mentions of bows, but thirty mentions of crossbows. Han soldiers were required to pull an "entry level" crossbow with a draw-weight of 76kg to qualify as a crossbowman. Warring States or Han dynasty crossbow trigger and buttplate. Warring States or Han Dynasty crossbow trigger and buttplate made of bronze and inlaid with silver. After the Han Dynasty, the original crossbow has two important design improvements. The first one is to add a bronze casing, and the other is to include a scale table with the shooting range on the trigger mechanism. The parts of the trigger mechanism installed The Book of the Crossbow the bronze casing can provide higher tension than those The Book of the Crossbow on the wooden frame. As a result, its shooting range has increased greatly. Adding a scale table with the shooting range on the trigger mechanism increases the accuracy of the shooting and helps the shooter to hit the target more easily. After the Han Dynasty, the structures of the original crossbow and trigger mechanism have not changed except that the size became larger to increase the shooting range. After the Han dynasty, the crossbow lost favor until it experienced a mild resurgence during the Tang dynasty, under which the The Book of the Crossbow expeditionary army of 20, included 2, archers and 2, crossbowmen. During the Song dynastythe government attempted to restrict the spread of military crossbows and sought ways to keep armour and crossbows out of private homes. The "romantic young people from rich families, and others who had nothing particular to do" formed crossbow shooting clubs as a way to pass time. During the late Ming dynastyno crossbows were mentioned to have been produced in the three-year period from to With 21, taels, the Ming manufactured 25, cannons, 8, small guns, 6, muskets, 4, culverins, 98, polearms and swords, 26, great "horse decapitator" swords, 42, bows, 1, great axes, 2, arrows,fire arrows, 64, bow strings, and hundreds of transport carts. Military crossbows were armed by treading, or basically placing the feet on the bow stave and drawing it using one's arms and back muscles. During the Song dynasty, stirrups were added for ease of drawing and to mitigate damage to the bow. Alternatively the bow could also be drawn by a belt claw attached to the waist, but this was done lying down, as was the case for all large crossbows. Winch-drawing was used for the large mounted crossbows as seen below, but evidence for its use in Chinese hand-crossbows is scant. Now for piercing The Book of the Crossbow hard things and shooting a long distance, and when struggling to defend mountain-passes, where much noise and impetuous strength must be stemmed, there is nothing like the crossbow for success. However, as the drawing i. A crossbow can only be shot off The Book of the Crossbow a single man] three times before it comes to hand-to-hand weapons. Some have therefore thought crossbows inconvenient for fighting, but truly the inconvenience lay not in the crossbow itself but in the commanders, who did not know how to make use of crossbows. All the military theorists of the Tang maintained that the crossbow had no advantage over hand-to-hand weapons, and they insisted on having long bills and great shields in the front line to repel the charge, and made the crossbowmen to carry sabres and long-hafted weapons. The result was that if the enemy adopted an open-order formation and attacked with hand-to-hand weapons, the soldiers would throwaway their crossbows and have recourse to those also. A body of the rearguard was therefore detailed beforehand to go round and collect up the crossbows. The crossbow allowed archers to shoot bows of greater strength and more accurately as well due to its greater stability, but at the cost of speed. Of course, in mounted archery [using the short bow] the Yi and the Di are skilful, but the Chinese are good at using nu che. These carriages can be drawn up in the form of a laager which cannot be penetrated by cavalry. Moreover, the crossbows can shoot their bolts to a considerable range, and do more harm [lit. And again, if the crossbow bolts are picked up by the barbarians they have no way of making use of them. Recently the crossbow has unfortunately fallen into some neglect; we must carefully consider this The strong crossbow [ The Book of the Crossbow nu ] and the [arcuballista shooting] have a long range; something which the bows of the Huns can no way equal. The use of sharp weapons with long and short handles by disciplined companies of armoured soldiers in various combinations, including the drill of crossbow men alternately advancing [to shoot] and retiring [to load]; this is something which the Huns cannot even face. The troops with crossbows ride forward [ cai guan shou ] and shoot off all their bolts in one direction; this The Book of the Crossbow something which the leather armour and wooden shields of the Huns cannot resist. Then the [horse-archers] dismount and fight forward on foot with sword and bill; this is something which the Huns do not know how to do. The states that the crossbow used en masse was the most effective weapon against northern nomadic cavalry charges. Even if they failed, the quarrels were too short to be used as regular arrows so they couldn't be used again by nomadic archers after the battle. The Zhuge Nu is a handy little weapon that even the Confucian scholar or palace women can use in self-defence It fires weakly so you have to tip the darts with poison. Once the darts are tipped with "tiger-killing poison", you can shoot it at a horse or a man and as long as you draw blood, your adversary will die immediately. The draw-back to the weapon is its very limited range. Qin from the State of Chu. This is corroborated by the earliest archaeological evidence of repeating crossbows, which was excavated from a Chu burial site at Tomb 47 at Qinjiazui, Province, and has been dated to the 4th century BC, during the Warring States Period - BC. The Ming repeating crossbow uses an arming mechanism which requires its user to push a rear lever upwards and downwards back and forth. In AD, Yang Xuan used a type of repeating crossbow powered by the movement of wheels:. Yang's solution was to load several tens of wagons with sacks of lime and mount automatic crossbows on others. Then, deploying them into a fighting formation, he exploited the wind to engulf the The Book of the Crossbow with clouds of lime dust, blinding them, before setting rags on the tails of the horses pulling these driverless wagons alight. Directed into the enemy's heavily obscured formation, their repeating crossbows powered by linkage with the wheels fired The Book of the Crossbow in random directions, inflicting heavy casualties. Amidst the obviously great confusion the rebels fired back furiously in self-defense, decimating each other before Yang's forces came up and largely exterminated them. Although the invention of the repeating crossbow has often been attributed to Zhuge Lianghe in fact had nothing to do with it. This misconception is based on a record attributing improvements to the multiple bolt crossbows to him. During the Ming dynastyrepeating crossbows were used on ships. Repeating crossbows continued in use until the late when it became obvious they could not longer compete with firearms. Large mounted crossbows known as "bed crossbows" were used as early as the Warring States period. Mozi described them as defensive weapons placed on top of the battlements. The Mohist siege crossbow was described as humongous device with frameworks taller than a man and shooting arrows with cords attached so that they could be pulled back. By the Han dynasty, crossbows were used as mobile field artillery and known as "Military Strong Carts". Tang versions of this weapon are stated to have obtained a range of 1, yards, which is supported by Ata-Malik Juvayni on the use of similar weapons by the Mongols in They were primarily used from the 8th to 11th centuries. on the range of the triple-bow The Book of the Crossbow. However, Juwaini's description of the campaign against the Nizaris contains many exaggerations due to his bias against the Nizari Ismailisand Maimun-Diz was actually not as impregnable as other nearby as Alamut and Lamasaraccording to Peter Wiley. The multiple bolt crossbow appeared around the late 4th century BC. A passage dated to BC states that it was mounted on a three-wheeled carriage and stationed on the ramparts.