@@mickypamei6629 - Turkish bows tend to be better suited to lighter gpp ratios than a lot of other types of bows - usually the rule is the smaller the siyahs, the lighter the arrows can be. Larger the siyahs the heavier the arrows. All depends on the construction of the bow too, some materials and laminations handle it better.

Turkic people had been using such devices since the time they neighbored the Chinese and collected crossbow darts which chinese shot at them when they ran out of arrows.

These crossbows were incredibly weak, they barely penetrated skin and could only kill if they were dipped in poison

Wouldn't work, they have a range of less than 100 yards and were incredibly weak

You read too much fantasy

So these things have been around for a while?

@@skatetrooper5285yeah mate, from just a little less far back as we know about archery to begin with.

I had one arrow slide out and hit in the chicken wing looking part of my left thumb. But in good foresight I only used a very low poundage bow.

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You could shoot further but you can't shoulder it and the act of firing it moves the barrel so it's always gonna be impossible to aim with any pressision. If your shooting 100 of them in the general direction of an enemy force or your in the palace and an assassin is running down the hall at you loosing 10 poorly aimed shoots in a few seconds is great but it's not a sniper.

@@NateNuchLee When the bow is anchored to a window, the motion doesn't mess with the aim that much.

So this is incorrect. The Chu ko nu was around long before Zhuge Liang. Zhuge took the design, which were smaller than in the video by a little bit, and figured out how to make them larger (bit bigger than in the video) and increase their power dramatically, making them actually useful in warfare of the period. The earlier style wouldn't penetrate even the cloth armor peasants had available at the time, so they had almost no use in warfare (and hadn't for a couple hundred years). Zhuge's redesign was so successful, it came to be called after him. It would allow not only the prod to hold significantly more power (he essentially figured out something with the size of the second prod and grain of bamboo if I remember my courses correctly), but also have much better accuracy at their high-end range (meaning at max range you have a decent chance of hitting hitting a target, as opposed to almost no chance individually). kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYurgIyeg7OanLs This shows a Qing, so MUCH later, variant, but the size of the second prod, and the longer power stroke are "Zhuge's" bow. The first mention of repeating crossbows is in the late Warring States period, though this could just be talking about a mounted version of this, larger and for siege defense that the Mohists had invented. Likely the original was invented by Mohists as well, a philosophy that was obsessed with engineering as a way to save peoples lives in sieges...by killing the enemy so you don't get sacked.

Thanks for that, yeah played romance of the three kingdoms his intelligence was 100.