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 don’t think you’re supposed to do that. Firing it with no bolt can cause a lot of stress because the released energy isn’t transferred into moving a projectile.
Had to try it a couple times, because they had it strung up backwards (looped in front of the bows, not behind as supposed to be). Yeah I fixed that already.
Not like I’m gonna blank shoot it hardly ever, but I had to try it a few times tonight to make sure I got it strung up correctly.
It’s a important rule generally, but with steel arms at this small size and light draw weight it doesn’t really matter.