This time I decided to start from the trigger and build the stock around it. Well it's not really a pistol anymore, but so far I only have a few parts of the trigger ready. So I decided to start building my version of this crossbow. I guess the short power stroke and relatively low poundage can't launch much heavier arrows at decent speed. Well I guess it was too heavy after that, probably over twice as heavy as a normal bolt and flew already quite slow, so impact force seemed to have decreased instead of increased. Well the glue didn't hold and they started pushing the arrow tip off of the shaft, but before that the whole shaft bend. Took one of those completely hollow arrows, jammed some bolts (with the head cut off) and secured them with glue. Trying to make bolts heavier failed miserably. Those little bolts disappear damn well into the ground :/ I started with 27 bolts and ended with 17, mostly due to long range shooting. That extra draw would give a nice boost in performance for sure!Īlso the bolts are pretty cheap trash, maybe a few bolts from a dozen fly well, half of them fly with a bit unexpected path and a few just nosedive or otherwise fly incorrectly. Do you think the prod could handle a little bit of extra stretching as it doesn't exactly look all that maxed at it's current state. Not too much can be done with the crossbow itself to increase it's performance so I've been designing a model with 2-3 cm extra draw length. it's a close range weapon, but had to try it at range Not exactly impressed with it, I expected a little bit more power but the lightweight bolts slow down fast. At 30 meters hitting the target gets difficult as bolts drop a lot before hitting it and some bolts just nosedive and hit the ground near the target, never to be found again. At 10 meters it seemed really good and all the way up to 20 meters the performance was good enough, but after 20 meters the struggle starts. Something else that needs to be changed will come up at some point for sure, but can't list anything else right now.įinally got some proper shooting done. Also something needs to be done for those bolts, they're just too light weight. It definitely needs a stock because I simply hate aiming with stockless weapons, my hands are too wobbly for them. What I'm planning to do is to improve it with the original body and eventually build my own version of it. They are hollow though, so gotta see if something could be fitted inside them Overall a nice little toy for it's price. The included bolts and the ones I bought are way too light, I thought they'd be a lot heavier than what they are. However the plastic parts were a bit squeky. I was impressed by the built quality, honestly the aluminium parts felt great. Though I replaced them with a red dot sight I had lying around and added a rail and flashlight. Original iron sights weren't too great, but were surprisingly zeroed in pretty well out of the box.

Getting the string off was a pain at first, but using a rope to simply pull back the ends of the prod allowed stringing it relatively easily. Also the safety will be the first thing to break, it wobbles already out of the box and feels really badly designed overall. The trigger pull is not too heavy, but being a pistol it easily throws off your aim.

Performance is decent, but I have to say the trigger is pretty bad. It came dark before I had a chance to take too many test shots with it, but so far it seems good for now. I'd have bought two straight for the extra prod and string, but unfortunately they weren't half price anymore, just -25% So had to go with one and see what can be done with it. For a long time I've been planning on getting a cobra pistol crossbow, but never got it done until now.

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