Silenced Schmidt Rubin :)

[diopter]

Guisan posted some interesting pics at the Swiss Rifle Message board forum.

I really enjoyed firing target crossbows at the Swiss Mountain Range Club when I visited there.
Really makes you aware of your finger tip placement when it gets hit by the 5mm thick steel bowstring travelling at full speed.

 

[smellie]

Sure puts the little aluminum shafts and nylon strings to shame!

THIS (apart from the Schmitt-Rubin half) is much like what a military crossbow of the 15th Century was like.

Thanks for showing!

 

[diopter]

Some pics from the Swiss Canadian Mountain Range Association club crossbow range.

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/carlosdiaopter/library/SCMRA Crossbow?sort=3&page=1

 

[john@]

Nice!

 

[kennymo]

Nice! I like the trident.

Or on second glance, the cocking lever! What kind of draw weight does this thing have?

 

[diopter]

My B.W.A.G is 200kgs. No way to #### them by hand without the "trident" lever.
These are the 30m target versions, not the 10m indoor models

New models:
http://www.winzeler.ch/de/index.php

 

[twosteam]

I want one!
jan

 

[diopter]

Video

Double tap.

 

[diopter]

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjY0KHaDSaY


BTW: Targets are wooden boards with the center exposed lead center aiming mark.
Tips of quarrels are screw threaded and actually turn on impact into the lead.

You see them them travelng back and forth in the video for each shot.
No one wants to risk damage to one.

Good pictures of targets here:
http://www.winzeler.ch/Gallery_Crossbow_Mix/crossbow_mix_index.html

 

[plinker 777]

The shooting blind I understand. {I would wear it as well, if peckerheads are circling like crows with flash mounted cameras} But the motorcycle jacket is just a bit over the top!?

Everyone should watch the vid, if nothing else it serves as a warning as to how low humanity (or Europeans at least) would stoop if they take away our firearms "privileges" here.

Having said that the OP's looks like a friggen instrument of death...and I want one...bad!

 

[diopter]

If the shooting clothing is "over the top", then why are ALL the serious competitors in international rifle and crossbow using them?

 

[plinker 777]

...well isn't the answer obvious!? So everyone {who's anyone} can tell at a mere glance that they are "serious competitors" in international rifle and crossbow circles. The clothes certainly make the man don't you know?

 

[SHELL SHUCKER]

...well isn't the answer obvious!? So everyone {who's anyone} can tell at a mere glance that they are "serious competitors" in international rifle and crossbow circles. The clothes certainly make the man don't you know?

In my neck of the woods, the "In gang" at the Trap club always wear Stanfields & jeans. I hung up my "hey look at me" clothes years back.

I sure love that older model 30m crossbow though. Another Swiss work of art.

 

[diopter]

Nothing wrong with leather. as these ladies show.

http://www.internettv.ch/regionen/wil/shootingstar-an-der-armbrust-wm

 

[John Sukey]

Wonder if they still shoot apples off their kid's heads?