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    maneuver throughout a hunt. Easily store and carry this bow with the rest of your gear without adding too much weight or bulk. The less you have to lug around, the more you can focus on the hunt. The Hoyt Vicxen is part of Hoyt's flagship line of crossbows and the company's dedication to craftsmanship shines through. Bowhunting has never been easier with a sleek design made for a great shot each time. This compound bow offers a lightning fast speed of 215.7 FPS for rapid firing. These specs…

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    axe head on the end), and maces (a short handle with spikes on the end). Battle axes, though uncommon, were used as a cheaper alternative to buying a sword. By far the most common ranged weapon of the medieval times was the bow and eventually the crossbow, a widely feared weapon able…

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    Swords. These swords were used for the same things, they were jesut made of different metals. This is lastly shown by the fact that Knights used a crossbow, and the Samurais used a regular bow and arrow. The only things that are different between a regular bow and arrow, and a crossbow, is that the regular bow and arrow is held vertically, while the crossbow is held horizontally. All of the following examples I have listed are pretty much the same thing, but have slight differences. Overall…

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    The Terracotta Army

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    The soldiers had many weapons, such as swords, spears, battle-axes, scimitars, sheilds, crossbows, and arrowheads were found in pits, most of these weapons do still glisen today. Most of these weapons have a large amount of bronze in them. These weapon do date back to 221 BC, so the advance weaponry is astonishing. But yet for thhe crossbows, they rotted out because they used bamboo and wood, so only the bronze triggers were left. terra cotta worriors were found…

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    Hush Movie Analysis

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    Hush is a horror movie about a woman named Madison Young. Maddie is a mute author, who temporarily lost her hearing and her speaking ability when she contracted bacterial meningitis when she was 13. She ended up losing both her hearing and her speaking ability after she had a surgery that went wrong. Due to Maddie’s disabilities, Hush presents an emphasis on isolation and the importance of existential awareness that other horror movies fail to provide. Hush is different because most of the…

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    Eventually, Saxon men began to fall through the ice. Later on in the film, the Romans fought the Saxons once again in what seemed to be the supreme ordeal in the steps of King Arthur’s journey. During this fight, the Saxon prince shot Lancelot with a crossbow, but Lancelot stayed alive long enough to finish his fight and slay the prince. Arthur eventually seized the prize when he killed the Saxon king. Lancelot and Triston both died in battle and this was Arthur’s threshold-resurrection. When…

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    integral to the Siege Warfare. They were one of the most effective weapons during the Siege Warfare. They were used by the Greeks, Romans, and Chinese. The first catapults were early attempts to increase the range and power of a crossbow (more advanced version of a crossbow). Diodorus Siculus was the first to document the use of the catapult or “mechanical arrow” in 399 B.C. Catapults were introduced into Europe during the middle ages. The French were the first…

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    Catapults

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    range and force behind a crossbow, the catapult was one of the most effect siege weapons of antiquity. There were varied forms of it all over the world, but ancient societies would agree that the ones who had the strongest catapults had a much higher chance of winning the battle of the day. There are three main types of catapults. The first is the most ancient and is called the ballista. This was invented by Diodorus Siculus, who wanted to increase the range of the crossbow. The ballista may be…

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    Medieval Hunting Essay

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    around. There is a lot of methods of hunting in the medieval time and today time. There is a lot view of hunting and the wealth view it fun not for survival. There was a lot of weapons use in medieval hunting such as Crossbows, Single-handed swords, Regular Bows. The bow and crossbow are still used in today hunting seasons. The swords are really not an idea to use in today hunting times. There is a lot of similar hunting method that we still use today we can sit and wait for the animal or…

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    metal. Items such as iron spears, swords, axes, and knives were appearing more and more. The weapon that gave the Chinese the most advantage from their enemies was the crossbow. Although the crossbow has been around before the Han Period, they were the ones who refined them allowing more that one bolt to be shot out at a time. The crossbow was manufactured so precisely, in such a way that made it hard for their enemies to mimic giving the Hans a huge advantage on the…

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