Which is really ironic, as my late father is the formal registered inventor of the Folding Crossbow.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4926834A/en
No, this one isn't a folding crossbow, but it does seem powerful enough to potentially be deadly. It's raining today so I'll have to wait for a good weather day and find an old used slab of wood for target practice.
I assume that your neighbour didn't know about the patent (wouldn't be ironic otherwise). Did you grow up firing crossbows, or did younger you just think of it as some weird hobby your dad had?
Your neighbor is cool.
I used to have one exactly like that, years ago. Came with about 2 dozen bolts, blue, yellow, orange, and red. It shot ok, about a dinner plate sized pattern at 10 yards. If you shoot a dense foam archery target you'll want a pliers to pull the bolts out, because only an inch or two will be sticking out of the target. Shooting hard wood will break the bolts, if it's half rotten it will be fine.
Just fyi that’s confidence, not irony.
Sincerely,
A Haughty Brit
That's neat!
It's a tribute. Your have been a nice enough upstairs neighbour that you finally get one.
Probably has a body on it. Sell it the dark web immediately.
It's a neat toy but the ones I've seen and the one I had were all extremely crappy quality
The string started unraveling after maybe 20-30 shots, then the plastic pieces started breaking off within a month to the point where it could no longer be used.
At most I managed to put 40 bolts through it and it fell apart
I gotta warn you. That kind is prone to being fragile, assuming my eyes aren't fucked.
I've run across a handful of the no name hand crossbows over the years, and only luck has kept people from injury when they break under load.
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