Get Entered to WIN this awesome TenPoint Siege 425 Crossbow! go.getenteredtowin.com/taskandpurpose DEADLINE to ENTER is 06/25/24 @ 11:59 pm (PST)

@V.B.Squire

8 күн бұрын

What's happening with the hostage rescue video and how many videos have been blocked in total?

@Taskandpurpose

8 күн бұрын

@@V.B.Squireso far that’s the first one blocked in 2 years , i might be able to re publish it soon

@Rvbcaboose714

8 күн бұрын

​​@@Taskandpurpose if you haven't seen the actual story this won't sound real (it is), but the IDF was using flaming arrows and flaming trebuchets over Northern Boarder just few days ago, should cover that it was epic 🤣 might make for a cool side: ancient weapons in modern warfare type of content haha

@Rvbcaboose714

8 күн бұрын

​@@Taskandpurpose jk, you're on it 🤣🤣🤣

@ProAvgeek6328

8 күн бұрын

legal in ontario, canada?

Bakhmut and Donbass: **guns, grenades and giant artillery** India-China border: **Medieval II Total War**

@Finngolian

8 күн бұрын

and Israel-Lebanon border: Trebuchets

@buwanbuwaya6927

8 күн бұрын

Who would win 5 Units of Welsh longbowmen or 5 Fatimid Mamluks

@mostlychimp5715

8 күн бұрын

@@buwanbuwaya6927 Do the longbowmen get to deploy stakes?

@buwanbuwaya6927

8 күн бұрын

@@mostlychimp5715 on first fight, they can, but the second is in desert and cannot deploy stakes

@HellsCourtesy

8 күн бұрын

good game

Crossbows, bows, trebuchets… we are returning to our roots

@user-xf2qt5il7n

8 күн бұрын

And some consider bayonets outdated.

@kiritotheabridgedgod4178

8 күн бұрын

​@@user-xf2qt5il7neveryone considers the bayonet outdated, until they run out of ammo.

@hazimrizal6834

8 күн бұрын

I'm waiting for shield formation

@Taskandpurpose

8 күн бұрын

reject modernity, embrace tradition

@immortalwarrior2695

8 күн бұрын

​@@Taskandpurpose Quite literally

My uncle, Donald Rauhauser, was an advisor for the 7th ARVN Regiment, then later the whole Corps for the Saigon region. The last two years of his Army career he never said where he was or what he did, so we assume Cambodia. He wasn't a bow hunter when he shipped out, but he was when he returned.

@mcarlinod

3 күн бұрын

Which year did this cambodia thing happen?

I stayed in China for 6 months in the past and I attended a public event hosted by the provincial police. It featured Chinese SWAT members with crossbows. I talked to my Chinese partner about this and he said something interesting. 1. Crossbows are a mainstay weapon in the police establishment due to easier maintance (i.e. generally less legally restrictive) and any standoffs with hostages in China will likely hurt the hostages when using firearms, including silenced firearms. 2. Not enough police officers that have the desired SWAT-level accuracy with sniper rifles, but there are plenty of them with better accuracy with crossbows that have good scopes. 3. Chinese officials are generally not that comfortable issuing police officers pistols/revolvers with the stopping power of 9mm Parabellum or higher in their daily routines. Hence, a taboo-ish attitude against firearms among the police establishment in general. But they have no problem with cold weapons like batons or crossbows. I don't know about the military and paramilitary (AKA People's Armed Police and others) aspects of crossbows in China. It's all boiled up to the current civic and police practices there. If you think about it, even with the crossbow-related concerns, today's China is not that different from the Ming/Qing dynasty. Of course, anybody can understand that there is a very profound contituity of the Chinese society if one actually lived in China. I guess this is the reason why today's China will stay as today's China for quite a long time.

@nrauhauser

8 күн бұрын

To say nothing of ammo cost for training.

@nvelsen1975

8 күн бұрын

I've seen one sported around by one member of a SWAT team on the Kunming train station. After the Uyghur jihadi terrorist strike there it's become incredibly secured. There was also two guard towers with snipers, and smg-armed troops on the ground though, so the specific use of one crossbow eludes me. This datapoint suggests it has a specific job (otherwise you get more of what you already have instead) I can however confirm that firearms proliferation among police forces drops the further away from the 'core' in the east you get. I'd theorise forces are armed or not based on political reliability and professionalism. Because if I'm honest, I've seen Chinese village cops (typically there were 1 or 2) that I wouldn't trust with a firearm either. An uncle in that part of the family runs a small resort, and last time I was there the village cop came by, got a crate of fruit, left. It was pretty clear they maintain an overly-friendly relation, and that cop had no weapon. Someone that easy to corrupt isn't the guy you want to have the only firearm in town if anything happens and people who all know eachother start picking sides. That's no Chinese thing either. Used to be the same here in the Netherlands: Most village cops (veldwachter) had no firearm. In case of a major armed disruption in their village their main job was to cycle to town and bring reinforcements.

@dawuid1491

8 күн бұрын

You married yourself to a Chinamxn?

@Paladin.Brandis

8 күн бұрын

Sometimes “tradition” will get you fucking SHWACKED….

@originalamerican9396

8 күн бұрын

The Chinese government doesn't want mass groups of heavily armed men who can overthrow them.

About 30 years ago, a murder was done in SoCal of someone who was killed with an arrow in their home. It remains unsolved.

@bryan6090

8 күн бұрын

truly a good stealth weapon

@theotherohlourdespadua1131

8 күн бұрын

​@@bryan6090 And an untraceable one. I doubt crossbows have the same sort of profiling guns have...

@kent4975

8 күн бұрын

Ain't no way

@ShireLeaf

8 күн бұрын

​@kent4975 your comment could mean so many things

@Taskandpurpose

8 күн бұрын

that's a good point ! the'yre untraceable so you can't really prove where they come from. not sure if that's something military use would really care about , they likely have other untraceable ways but yeah that's an interesting aspect for clandestine use

Is nobody going to address the trebuchet in the room?

@nickbeckwith6211

8 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@josephstromboli9365

8 күн бұрын

"it's basically just like throwing a rock but bigger whats ur deal"

@chazcampos1258

8 күн бұрын

When talking to the trebuchet in the room, I address it as "Sir".

@elchinator

8 күн бұрын

When your medieval weapon is still more modern than the stone age neck beards on the other side.

@newtypealpha

8 күн бұрын

The Navy's taking care of it. What part of "catapult assisted takeoff" did you not understand?

My dad served in the Army and fought in Vietnam. As a kid I always wanted to know more about it. My mom discouraged us kids from discussing Vietnam because it caused him nightmares and put him on edge, PTSD as it's known today. However he did tell me about one encounter. While on a patrol though the jungle his fire team saw something up ahead and everyone took cover and concealment expecting to engage the VC, but what they saw was not the VC. It was a guy, presumably an American (caucasian) by himself armed with a long bow. They made brief eye to eye contact, like I'm on your side, and then the guy continued on into the jungle. He didn't really know what to make of it at the time, but later on he concluded he must have been special forces. I guess using crossbows makes sense.

@kettelbe

2 күн бұрын

Aliens. It was aliens

My boss who had spent some time as a EMT told us that when he and his family went camping in the Oregon mountains some kid was accidently hit by an arrow. He said that out of all the crazy shit that he had seen that topped everything. The kid lived for a couple of hours, but the closest hospital was 6 hours away. The whole time he was in an agonizing amount of pain. Don't be the guy practicing your bow skills in the middle of a public campground, thats one way to have your camping trip ruined.

@prashanthb6521

4 күн бұрын

That was sad to read. Unlucky kid.

argue what you want about it, but modern day carbon-fiber drapped black compound crossbows look SICK AF

@Dahblackrussian

8 күн бұрын

Yes but they're still shit

@Steve-ev6vx

8 күн бұрын

@@Dahblackrussian for fighting, yeah I would much rather have a gun. For hunting they are nice for certain things.

@piorun7840

8 күн бұрын

@@Steve-ev6vx depends what fighting because any gun on the world will produce heat and sound(ofc you can reduce heat signature using some kind of materials but it will decrease the mobility of troops or increase costs massively so if you want to have a squad that is fast, precise, stealthy to the maximum and not to use all of your budget you use either cold weapons or things like crossbows etc.)

@knightwolf3511

8 күн бұрын

@@piorun7840 ya going to agree Crossbows are great till they spot your location but easier to get around when there is no loud banging going on

@Steve-ev6vx

8 күн бұрын

@@piorun7840 An air bow on a high end PCP airgun frame might be more practical. I know from hunting with one, a crossbow is hard to sneak around with in heavy cover. The horizontal limbs catch on everything. They are slow to reload too.

Wait untill they learn about Jörg Sprave's crossbows "let me show you its fearures"

@boilingman4357

8 күн бұрын

Yeah having magaize fed full auto crossbows would be neat

@littlejimmy7402

8 күн бұрын

Don't mess with the Legolas platoon

@hidum5779

8 күн бұрын

you missed his laugh HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@OnlyFlans42

8 күн бұрын

Well technically it was the Chinese that invented the repeating crossbow not Joerg lol. He just improved the design

@bacon81

8 күн бұрын

Exactly 🤣

I was a Sea Bee during the Vietnam War. We were there to build and not allowed to carry our weapons. Our commander said we had plenty of protection and didn't need our weapons. I didn't feel all that safe with just a knife on my belt and one day I saw a Montagnard Scout in camp with a crossbow. So I asked him if I could buy it from him. He sold me the bow and a quiver of arrows. It was a good weapon for the jungle. I could hit a man-size target at 100 yards with it and the hardened bamboo arrows would go through a half-inch plywood board. I sent it home after my tour. My dad found it in my box, played with it, and broke the bow, but I still have the quiver of arrows.

@holman804

5 күн бұрын

Hooray Seabee

@Rncko

2 күн бұрын

Dun tell me..... ur dad dry-fired it?

One advantage for crossbows is that they are literally silent, and there's no flash to suppress so you actually don't know where it's coming from until it hits its Target

@harsectinal

7 күн бұрын

They aren't silent.

@caezero2072

7 күн бұрын

​@@harsectinalIt's actually very quiet; I couldn't hear my uncle practicing with one of the 200lbs outside the house, except for the sound when he hit cardboard/tincans

@kaylamarie8309

6 күн бұрын

​@harsectinal Pretty close all things considered. They should do a video shooting a cross bow registering sound in an ambient environment. I think that would be pretty interesting. I managed to get a second shot at a big doe from my blind that I missed by inches one archery season that I would never have gotten during rifle season with my powder burning rifles.

@AR15andGOD

6 күн бұрын

@@harsectinal from the range youll get hit from it certainly is

@JakieToJestPojebane

5 күн бұрын

90dB means they're as loud as a car engine. Which means they can be quiet depending on the enviroment. With helicopters flying around they'd be as quiet as a mouse.

They're getting prepared to live up to Einstein's quote: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones".

@Alberto-ow6ib

8 күн бұрын

Einstein meant bows and crossbow

@johnkongsaisy7014

8 күн бұрын

After the ammo runs out in europe in asia I fully expect that after 3 generations. Us americans though? Its amazing we havent collapsed already

@thomashenshallhydraxis

7 күн бұрын

You know. That’s a good point. All the old stuff coming back. Because shipping arrows would be lighter and cheaper; can make arrows in jungles.

@RafaelSang-tq8ur

7 күн бұрын

WWIV would be fought by the roaches, hornets, centipedes, scorpions, spiders and ants.

@DennisBrummett-jh6wl

7 күн бұрын

Nice,🤙

Well IDF uses trebuchets apparently, so why not crossbows :)

@Smatnm

8 күн бұрын

Retro is so hot right now.

@WagesOfDestruction

8 күн бұрын

There is a military expression, if it works it ain't stupid

@beetlebg3759

8 күн бұрын

@@Smatnmyou got hearted but not the main commenter.

@monkofkrayak6235

8 күн бұрын

The IDF also uses diapers, so they're not a good entity to draw inspiration from.

@MikhaelAhava

8 күн бұрын

@@beetlebg3759damn.

Lieutenant Colonel Jack Churchill, often referred to as "Mad Jack." was a British Army officer who famously carried a longbow, bagpipes, and a Scottish broadsword into battle.

@TheMightyTengu

7 күн бұрын

They still work so why-not.

It's like when you forget about a unit for 100+ turns in a game of Civilization but you spent all your gold and can't upgrade it this turn.

"military grade" = lowest quality accepted by DOD.

@bobo-cc1xw

8 күн бұрын

Or china where it is most acceptable bribe?

@mnxs

8 күн бұрын

Related: What do you call a medical student that barely passes their exams by the seat of their pants? A doctor.

@justsomeplantcells-

8 күн бұрын

“Cheapest to produce”

@jyy9624

8 күн бұрын

On the contrary it means no bs in another level from other gov - like military grade desegregation

@cristobaltorres6185

8 күн бұрын

Absolutely

Many other nations, including the USA, still use crossbows. Fun fact: Because we don't have the 2nd amendment in Germany, I have a bunch of crossbows and swords for home defense.

@tiberius8390

8 күн бұрын

Yeah, in many countries firearms are actually illegal without a special license and a proper "reason" why you have them (usually sports and hunting). Crossbows and swords on the other hand remain legal without a special license.

@kiritotheabridgedgod4178

8 күн бұрын

​@@tiberius8390Fun fact, unless you have enough money or status to get past the restrictions, in the UK, if your primary reason for applying for a firearms license is hunting, then you will be denied in most cases. Sporting reasons can still get you denied, but less often than hunting, and home defense is not a valid reason for the license unless you are a farmer.

@tiberius8390

8 күн бұрын

@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 For Germany I know you have to be in a sports club and have trained for a while, also I believe there are some gun safety courses you have to do and you need the club confirming/advocating for you, plus always a police background check, then you can get a license to OWN a gun (not to carry it in the street obviously!) and use it for sport. As a hunter you need to do the hunting licenses and also training at a gun range obviously. At home you need the correct safes for weapon and ammunition (separate ones) and the police will come to you at home and will check your safes without an appointment or warning. Self-defense is also not a reason to own or even carry a gun in Germany. Only police or bodyguards get such licenses. All in all you better not self-defend with a gun unless the other person had one, too or you will most probably end up in jail. Even the police is very hesitant to use their gun really, because if they do it's a huge can of worms and pretty much always leads to an investigation if it was justified.

@RichelieuUnlimited

8 күн бұрын

We don’t have the 2nd Amendment in Germany, but we do have Art. 20 Abs. 4 GG, which serves the same purpose. And home defense isn’t really something you‘d ever need in Germany.

@Tragantar1310

8 күн бұрын

@@RichelieuUnlimited now thats a cap with violent crime at an all time high. germany is a shithole right now

You should follow up with an explanation of decibels. Every 10 dB increase in sound intensity is 10X louder. So, a suppressor lowering the dB level by 20-30 means it is 100x to 1,000x quieter. Log base 10. Thirty decibels is the difference between a quiet office and a busy street.

@Bootbandwarlord

8 күн бұрын

I think everyone knows this my guy

@hidum5779

8 күн бұрын

@@Bootbandwarlord I didn't

@Bootbandwarlord

7 күн бұрын

@@hidum5779 yeah but you do now 👍🏻

@Jayfrm301

6 күн бұрын

@@Bootbandwarlordpoint is he didn’t before 🤣

@blackdog6969

2 күн бұрын

I believe every 10dB is twice as loud. At least what we were taught in my tertiary music course. 10x would make the difference between a lawnmower and a concert excruciating

In the '60s I was in an archery shop in Portland Oregon and the owner was fooling around with a crossbow. He said "Watch this!" and shot a bolt at a phone booth two blocks away. He then sent me to fetch the bolt. It was buried deep into the Portland phone book. I was impressed!

I work with crossbows professionally, but for hunting not military applications. There's two things I'd like to mention that could deepen the conversation. 1) Crossbows are not as fragile as many of the comments here suggest, but they do need to be well lubricated, greased, and never misfired. These are things you learn as you go. The important detail is if you do get string skip in the field, you will need a product like Bow Medic to restring compound limbs cuz gl trying to do that with your buddy's hands, lmao. 2) Broadheads. It was briefly mentioned in the video, but the extraordinary damage four vented single bevel blades will do to your body wherever it hits is unholy. It's not superior to a 7.62 rifle round, lol, don't get me wrong, but if you plant a 125grain broadhead (rip bones if it's heavier) into a moving target and it doesn't exit the other side, the internal trauma will mangle your organs - even take limbs. And you do NOT want to pry one out of yourself in the field... God. You'd be so, so screwed. And yeah, they're pretty darn quiet compared to most firearms.

@tlevans62

8 күн бұрын

Yep, a broadhead does terrible damage to any animal, they usually die very quickly from massive internal damage and blood loss. Very nasty weapons.

@dylan.-6527

8 күн бұрын

You forgot the screaming in pain, depending. Not quiet, more loud and powerful then a bow though.

@xuansu9036

8 күн бұрын

@@dylan.-6527but you wouldn’t be able to hear where the shot came from

@Wolffur

7 күн бұрын

What would scare me most would be the usage of expanding broadheads. Horrifying blood loss. Not to mention that historical archers used to allow their arrowheads to rust in order to give their enemies tetanus.

@makinganoise6028

6 күн бұрын

@@xuansu9036 you would hear with a crossbow, I shoot bows and crossbows, bows are much quieter, especially Trad bows

Some of us hunters know that the bow is the only way to outsmart a very clever animal that knows the smell of cordite.

@thatguysky123

8 күн бұрын

I've had a buck duck under my bolt. The loud trunk my old crossbow made was loud enough for him to duck and run 😂

@FarmerDrew

8 күн бұрын

@@thatguysky123 ninja deer not going down so easy

@Spider-Too-Too

8 күн бұрын

My dog can smell the gun powder residue on my after a range day and he is scare of it

@Steve-ev6vx

8 күн бұрын

​​@@Spider-Too-Toowe had a dog that was opposite of that. He loved the smell of cordite and would run out into the field of fire on the range, barking and jumping around. Couldn't let him out when we where shooting at our private range.

@Spider-Too-Too

8 күн бұрын

@@Steve-ev6vx oof

Bolts. Crossbows shoot bolts or quarrels, not arrows. Bolt is short heavy and stubby. An arrow is long and sleek. The dagger point on a hi-power crossbow pierces a soft body armour. Not visible in the thermal camera.

@user-ll1ll8qb7f

6 күн бұрын

Modern crossbows use arrows. Bolts are heavy and short, without feathers (or with a rudimental ones, cause with such energies and f***ed-up balance of a bolt feathers don't give much stabilization), with porpoise to break steel armor from close range. Modern crossbows are hunting crossbows, they don't need armor penetration, animals don't wear steel. But animals are easily scared, so we need long range, good speed, and accuracy. Arrows give this, bolts don't. Also there was problems with medieval materials (too long to describe, it's pure engineering and durability), so at these times crossbows had short rail (could not hold a long arrow, only bolt would fit) and WERY powerful limbs (1000+ lbs, modern crossbow with 225 lbs is enough to take boar).

@HanSolo__

3 күн бұрын

In my language arrows for crosbows are still called bolts to difference em from bow arrows.

@smokedbeefandcheese4144

2 күн бұрын

@@user-ll1ll8qb7f they still called bolts saw em online

A minor point of clarification: China was unified by the Qin (秦) dynasty around 221 BC while making prodigious use of crossbows; the Qing (清) dynasty began with the Manchurian conquest in 1644.

Coming soon, crossbow equipped drones.

@disciple68

8 күн бұрын

Or cyborgs 😮

@Wolfen443

8 күн бұрын

They already have sniper rifles on drones, so they bypass cross already unless special forces or police use them for limited scale or silent operations.

@milanstepanek4185

8 күн бұрын

Thats actually very interesting thing to ponder. People predict that consumer drones will be a massive security risk, BUT.. Consumer grade FPV & quadrocopters drones are wreaking havoc in Ukraine because both sides have grenades, warheads and just explosives in general in basically infinite supply but assuming a terrorist with access only to civilian market would want to weaponize a drone (and he doesnt know fertilizer magic), it'd have to be some kind of kinetic device. Maybe just turn an FPV into one giant flying knife or have array of crossbows on a quadrocopter that has better load capacity.

7:10 you cannot gloss over the fucking trebuchet

@Oh-God-Of-All-Creation

8 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

The Chinese invented crossbows in 500 BC, but the formation of the Qin dynasty not Qing dynasty is what you got confused with

Cool show! Thx Cappy

Just a clarification, you probably meant the Qin dynasty which was the first one that unified China. Qing dynasty was the last dynasty.

@Taskandpurpose

8 күн бұрын

did I say "Qin" the graphic we put in might have showed the wrong one though

@yoopergamer1871

8 күн бұрын

No, you said "bing chilling". Don't lie.​@@Taskandpurpose

@DNice337

8 күн бұрын

That’s fuc”Qing” cool

@carlosandleon

8 күн бұрын

Ching chong

@peekaboopeekaboo1165

8 күн бұрын

​@@Taskandpurpose Another anti-China propaganda channeled down from Washington DC ... you can't even say Riots and Terrorism committed by Uyghur terrorist separatists.

John Travolta: Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons China: Ok. We guard nukes with crossbows from now on.

@TylerBridwell

8 күн бұрын

Wouldn't want a Broken Arrow.

@davidrymwar5812

8 күн бұрын

I guarded nukes for six years. Crossbows sounds like the dumbest fucking idea possible.

@startourzdcs

8 күн бұрын

@@TylerBridwellyou sir are a genius

@southtxgunner2388

7 күн бұрын

​@davidrymwar5812 Thank you, glad someone said it...

@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing

6 күн бұрын

Stayin' Alive. Stayin' Alive.

Thank you Cappy!

The backup alarm from the garbage truck at around the 18:45 minute mark was hilarious! Here Cappy is using a patch of woods to get into "the field environment" in New Jersey and we have the elusive multi-terrain trash truck trying to avoid being punctured by an arrow. Yeah Cap, I was wearing headphones. I am 66 and also from North Jersey, living in NC for the last 35 years.

@Taskandpurpose

7 күн бұрын

hahah that one part I filmed closer to the street ! the other part I went a bit out into the woods for : p to get away from people seeing me

A crossbow bolt, when fired will penetrate kevlar body armour, designed for stopping bullets.

@carcharhinus_555

8 күн бұрын

True to some degree - kevlar wests purely against small arms. (Un)fortunately most kevlar wests now also have knife/jab protection, which will probably work well against an arrow. At least in Europe, where knife attacks are more common than gunshots (which influences what is produced most, which influences what is cheap, i.e. bought).

@drsm7947

8 күн бұрын

It depends on how far is the target if it's more than 100 yard it's hard to pierce a kevlar armor

@delphy2478

8 күн бұрын

good modern military body armor has a combination of kevlar and 'break plates' ,usually some ceramic variant, and the break plates will 100% stop the crossbow bolt. it would be rather rare to find a kevlar only body armor

@ottovonbismarck7646

8 күн бұрын

Yes, but military body armor isn't just kevlar weave. It's a goddamned hardened ceramic plate with soft armor behind it. Unless that crossbow has ridiculous draw weight, it ain't sending a bolt through that.

@Perry2186

8 күн бұрын

@@delphy2478 it aint the bolt that need stopped its the broadhead and ive seen muzzy and thunderheads go thorough soft armor

To enter Rambo mode, also they must have just got the crossbow update on Minecraft

@MilitaryPlayer141

8 күн бұрын

Do these guys even play child’s games?

@reboundrides8132

8 күн бұрын

@@MilitaryPlayer141Minecraft is an incredibly sophisticated game. People have built working computers and calculators.

@burnttoaster6313

8 күн бұрын

@@MilitaryPlayer141 yes dumb player

What a great episode! It's clear why in some situations some would want this device.

Arrow makes less noise than a firearm. The only thing I could think is that it is good for having good noise discipline

@FuzDoesStuff

8 күн бұрын

Also probably because they have a better time getting through vests.

I very much disagree that crossbows are simpler to maintain than firearms. Simple crossbows yes (non-compound ones), but modern crossbows? You need specialized equipment to restring it, can't be done in the field, and strings do break, especially when they get wet! You need to take very good care of the string, any dirt on it can make it fail within a few shots. And if it fails while fully drawn or you dry-fire it, the limbs will very likely also be damaged.

@Steve-ev6vx

8 күн бұрын

I had string break while firing my Barnett and it didn't hurt it, but it was a recurve. I agree though, you need a bow press to work on one.

@Mike-ul1xn

8 күн бұрын

agreed. my local bow shop is one of, if not the only one left in the state (and several surrounding) that will still work on crossbows in house instead of shipping it to the manufacturer. It is light years easier to maintain and repair AKs and ARs than a modern crossbow.

fascinating vid Mr Cappy. good stuff in talking about the weird and wonderful in the military world.

first time seeing your channel. great video!

Quiver? There will be no quivering in this man’s Army!

@averilramsey7241

8 күн бұрын

I beg to differ. My Sergeant once told me that my Lieutenant made her thighs quiver. True story. Hand to God.

Arrows were used in Yugoslav civil war to penetrate sandbags. Bullets use blunt force to create damage, and they tumble and deform. This makes things like sand bags optimal for stopping bullets. Arrows go through sand bags and the like with ease. Arrows also go through bullet proof vests.

@YoureSoVane

8 күн бұрын

Soft armor, yes, but not any kind of armor plate.

@Taskandpurpose

8 күн бұрын

interesting point I was not aware of the Yugoslav use , that explains why they came up when talking about Serbia still using them! they go through kelvar vest of the 1990s im guessing, they wouldnt go through ballistic plates

@kiritotheabridgedgod4178

8 күн бұрын

​​@@Taskandpurposetrue, they wouldn't go through a plate, but that's what blunt tips are for. Don't need to punch through the plate, if you can just put enough force into it, that it cracks ribs and fills lungs with bone shards. Similar concept to the thought process behind HESH.

@Steve-ev6vx

8 күн бұрын

I stop my crossbow with a foam block. I just don't see it penetrating sand bags.

@The1337guy1

8 күн бұрын

​@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178I have my doubts a crossbow bolt could break bones through an armor plate. I also think the use case is pretty bad because if you can aim precisely for the armor, why not just shoot somewhere else? Surely aiming for the legs or stomach would get equal results.

Awesome video. I love your sense of humor! And if you shoot a revolver (45 caliber) you will find it easier to hit your target, when compared to other types of short barrel firearms.

Silencers on guns are not really silent so I can see the stealth argument for crossbows. It is also nice to be able to recycle your ammo if supplies are an issue.

Pre-watch list: -They're silent -waterproof -lightweight -reusable ammo - better overall armor penetration -goes through barriers like sand bags -can be used for fishing -don't need to be cleaned after prolonged use -Fewer moving parts, so less chance of a breakdown. -cheaper to make -no chance of jamming -can be legally purchased in the US without needing to provide proof of citizenship.

@ShawnSeaman

8 күн бұрын

Bolts don’t have better armor penetration or go through sandbags better then common military issue rifle bullets.

@Brassblitz

8 күн бұрын

Rebuttal: Sand bags are way more effective against arrows vs bullets. Same with armor. It's mostly a question of kinetic energy. But you can kill a tank with an arrow if you make it out of depleted uranium and fire it out of a cannon, now your have a APFSDS. Jamming is a failure of an auto reloading mechanism. Muskets don't jam either. I'd guess most jams can be cleared faster than reloading a single fire weapon.

@davidallcock6316

8 күн бұрын

It's best quality is its stealth...silence

@Khobotov

8 күн бұрын

*Behold!* The superior rock: -Is silent -absolutely waterproof -weight can be adjusted to your liking -reusable -bonus blunt damage against armor -can be chucked in a ballistic arc over sand bags and barriers -can be used for fishing -makes a great pet -absolutely no need for cleaning -no moving parts -can be turned into a weather station -is free -never jamms -is legal and freely available to everyone

@adamrou12345

8 күн бұрын

crossbows can fail, it happens a lot, the bowstring comes off the cams and you can't put it back on without the correct tools to take it apart and re route the string this is a very common failure caused by torque when cocking which you have to do every time you fire. The realistic reason they would be used would be for stealth but you are going to have to stealth your way to within 50 yards of the target. A 22 with a silencer will be lethal much farther out and not much louder.

We used crossbows in Vietnam in place of sniper rifles. There were some complaints but the Cong used far more primitive traps. Razor tipped bolts will penetrate soft armor with no problem. I had a shop teacher 50 years ago who built a crossbow made of a leaf spring from a car and steel 3/16 inch cable. The bolt was a piece of rebar that had a notch ground in the back and the tip was sharpened to a 45° angle. A solid oak stock topped things off. He test fired it from about 20 feet from a 12 inch block wall with a brick veneer on the outside. Well as luck would have it it punched a perfect hole through both the block and the brick and buried itself in the grass 20 feet outside the shop. He about sh!t his pants. Lucky the bushes hid the hole outside but he had to patch the hole inside. Funniest thing a bunch of us witnessed after hours in shop class.

@TheMightyTengu

7 күн бұрын

They can actually punch through some types of body armor too.

Great vidio, got a nankung cross bow from China about 20 years ago and she still works fine.Thanks for the morning coffee...

I quit drinking the molotov cocktail. The heartburn was terrible. 🔥

They are either preparing for a scenario where they have to time travel into medieval times and work with the avaliable tecnology, OR they are preapring for a zombi-apocalipse..........

@habichnicht8845

8 күн бұрын

or a post nuklear war szenario when hot weapon munitions are not beiing produced anymore cuz facilitys have been evaporated but u can make bolts out of wood metal and other debris very easy

@dchiznit209

8 күн бұрын

The Gate leading to the special region didn’t spawn in Japan..it spawned in China!

@demomanchaos

8 күн бұрын

@@habichnicht8845 No you can't. Arrows are actually very complicated, as you have to balance a lot of factors to get one that actually flies true rather than shatters on launch or veers off in any direction except the one you want.

@habichnicht8845

8 күн бұрын

@@demomanchaos okay i made arrows my self for bow and also bolts for crossbow and option 1 im very talented with that...... or 2 its not that hard ..... i even made a glass shard arrow tip its easy and looks pretty but for bow arrows u need glue for the fins and the tip and for bolts just sand or scrap some stuff off until it stays on a finger when placed roughly at the middel horizontally.... and well they hit a cardboard box at 80m just fine .... so accuracy okay i guess....

@demomanchaos

8 күн бұрын

@@habichnicht8845 Is your bow a 120 lb war bow or a modern 50 lber that imparts a fraction of the force?

I once fired a 300 pound cross bow. We only had one bolt. I aimed at a metal barrel and missed. We never found that bolt. That was the end of that.

@Jayfrm301

6 күн бұрын

that’s some real sh*

Is this just an advertisement disguised as a Chinese special forces crossbow force video?

Keep up the good work !!!!!

You missed the point where a crossbow bolt is technically easier to make than a bullet and that you can even make them yourself with some knowhow. And if bullets, or the gunpowder ingrediense for it, becomes scarse or unavaliable for some reason.. Making a crossbow bolt or arrow will be the difference btween winning or losing. They are also reuseable, unlike pretty much all bullets. Admittingly, arrows for bows are easier than bolts for crossbows. So I believe that the training and use of crossbows and bows in modern times is a big "what if" scenario for if bullets becomes hard or impossible to comeby and you need alternatives that isnt just hitting someone with a club or your fists.

For some reason, I keep hearing Joerg Sprave's laugh while watching this video. 🤔

Actually some new information in this presentation, along with the usual history lesson. Thank You! Crossbows have their uses but are limited by re-cock time and obstacles (like vegetation). Their knockdown power is questionable when you don't want a sentry crying out. But I never thought about firing from underwater. With our clear waters in the Ozarks, I might have to check that out.

Back when I was 9 years old my grandpa bought me a Barnett crossbow kit for $10 from the flea market. Assembled it that day but it took 2 years till I was strong enough to draw it back. Finally I took a shot at the huge fir in our yard and the bolt buried itself nearly to the fletching. I never in my life have understood why people don’t take crossbows seriously and don’t feel the need to regulate them like firearms. They’re absolutely deadly, accurate, versatile and silent.

@smokedbeefandcheese4144

2 күн бұрын

Lol how are you going to regulate an ancient weapon peoples build in garage bros a Fudd

KZread: no more guns! Taskandpurpose: we got crossbow sponsors

War Of The Arrows 2011 is a dope Korean v. China movie. Lots of crazy shots.

@titusvelez

8 күн бұрын

Loved the movie.

@johngillespie3409

8 күн бұрын

@@titusvelezoh yeah, one of my favorites.

@ismaelhall3990

7 күн бұрын

A good foreign movie its a shame most dont know that.

I think it’s really cool people are still using crossbows and trebuchets. Great video

Interesting, thank you.

If any of Cappy's platoon have video of his puppet show the world needs to see it.

Phrases you will only see together in a Chris Cappy video🤙 * Sock Pupet Show * It's not treason if you don't make eye contact 😆 * You can hit people that are underwater * Mechanical dogs with weapons on their backs

@hanrockabrand95

5 күн бұрын

Is the water thing true? I would think that bullets and bolts would have roughly similar performance going through water.

Crossbow is a brilliant weapon. It achieves one of the best balances of manufacturing simplicity, lethality, range, stealth, and ease of use in military history.

I like how hard you tried to make crossbows make sense lol

Arrows and bolts go straight through water or sandbags, barely slowing down, giving them an advantage against enemies behind sand bags or divers.

@blochtar

8 күн бұрын

I was looking for this comment.

@johnfroehling5653

8 күн бұрын

Better than bullets but sandbags still stop bolts.

When the aliens are able to jam gunpowder weapons......

@makinganoise6028

6 күн бұрын

you jest but, if you had some kind of microwave weapon you could potentially cause brass ammo to cook off.

The point is that if you fire that single arrow with variety of numerous opponent, you will only hit one that is if you're sharp shooter, but having mindset at its variables you can superposition yourself double or triple the numbers of your variety of assailants and win or subdivide your assailants into different time periods with only one opponent facing you while training hard in time to beat that person and when you meet for battle, you're like Bruce Lee, Achilles, Terminator the man machine combined.

Hahaha, Rambo was the first person I thought of and that picture killed me! 😂

A crossbow bolt can penetrate through many body armors where a bullet might be stopped.

Good timing for this vid considering the IDF was seen using bows with fire arrows and trebuceths with burning balls at the lebanon border

Because of the type of projectile they can actually go through level 3 plates. Spears and arrows have a very unique ballistic profile because the "inline mass" continues to push the tip through the target.

On a podcast (I cant remember which one) Marcus Luttrell talked about how they all brought their compound bows with them and would target shoot in their compound. He mentioned that a couple guys wanted to take them out on patrol, but were shut down pretty quick

In the video the PLA soldiers were also using Compound Bows, I shot those here in England to a high competition level (The equivalent of representing my State in the US) putting arrows in a basically head size target was no problem at 100yds or meters, the kinetic energy was massive penetrating a compressed target 5 inch thick with ease, my Bow an American made Hoyt was set at 55lb draw weight, Our club didn't allow crossbows as they destroyed the targets, Some of the Barnett Compund Crossbows mentioned being between 4 and 6 times more powerfull than mu Hoyt Bow and even more accurate.

@Jake-dh9qk

8 күн бұрын

Same, picked up a Bowtech prodigy for fun and started shooting about 2 times a week for 2 months without any professional training. It was really easy to hit accurately once you dial in the scope correctly. I can imagine the compound crossbow would be even easier to use

Calling that crosbow ancient is really dumb.

@theheartlandgroup757

8 күн бұрын

Talking about the technology, I’m sure….

This Task and Purpose Video, " Crossbow Edition" is brought to You All , by the friendly Soldier of Fortune folks in the movie , " The Wild Geese".

The point, Chappy, is the sharp bit at the end 😂

You talk 'bout bows and arrows, but Brazilian army also still uses blowguns for guerrilla tactics into the rainforest! And, let's not forget Mad Jack Churchill, who scored the last recorded kill with bow and arrow during wartime!

They Been Watching To Much RAMBO 🏹

@chuanyong5442

8 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂

Thank you.

How much crossbow troops are there in China. A full division? Or just a few regiments? Or no dedicated formation at all, just some auxillery to various formation?

A whole new meaning to the phrase "broken arrow"

Purely hypothetically, would my home defense setup of Tannerite filled dog decoys and gasoline lawn sprinklers still work on the ATF if they used Crossbows now? Im Minecraft of course...

@kiritotheabridgedgod4178

8 күн бұрын

Well, if you were to swap to Crossbows, then the ATF can't touch you, and your tannerite filled dogs are safe from the sights of the bad men.

@seand.g423

8 күн бұрын

Bro, you were fast as hell to count "denial" as "defense..."

You can get tactical cross bows that can be loaded with three or four bolts at a time so you can get a faster rate of fire from them

The thermal signature advantage is going to be crucial in future warfare were you can assume automatic drone targeting of any mussel flash that does not have a friend foe ID attached. It will not take long until we get to the point were firing a conventional firearm on a battlefield will result in a down homing in on you within seconds. Using cold weapons will allow combatants to blend in as the AI can’t easily distinguish them from civilians so will not automatically target. But no civilian will emit a mussels flash so they can be targeted.

I shoot a recurve almost daily (50+lbs), and I grew up with the usual rifles. Crossbows get a hell of a lot of respect from me, scary stuff. The thing is those bolts are heavy, and scary quiet compared to anything else carrying that much energy around. AND you don't need a proud stance to fire, you could be prone etc

Hunting cryptids be like

@AR15andGOD

6 күн бұрын

I remember watching vids about the chupacabra as a kid

For every task the proper tool! Also I knew an individual from Eastern Europe who said arrows had some applications over firearms because they went straight through sand bags where high velocity rounds would smash apart

My great uncle told me that his infantry unit in the Pacific used crossbows to silently take out sentries. I find that a little weird because unless you get a solid head shot, the target will be able to cry out an alarm and/or get off a couple of shots.

Japan still use kamehameha

@wenerjy

8 күн бұрын

That's Hawaiian

Relatively silent, high stopping power and armor piercing? Why not.

@YoureSoVane

8 күн бұрын

Most certainly not armor piercing, and not as silent as you'd think.

@atrumluminarium

8 күн бұрын

​@@YoureSoVanearmour not referring to tanks in this case I am assuming. Probably kevlar or bp vests

@kiritotheabridgedgod4178

8 күн бұрын

​@@atrumluminariummost modern crossbows can punch through kevlar with the right bolt head, although for a plate carrier, you're more likely to want a blunt force head, it's got less chance of punching through ceramic, but depending on range you could most definitely crack/break a few ribs with a blunt force tip, if you hit the plate.

@minhducnguyen9276

8 күн бұрын

And no spark so it won't cause a fire if you have to fight near flammable materials.

@RichelieuUnlimited

8 күн бұрын

@@YoureSoVane A crossbow bolt will act similar to an armor piercing bullet, easily allowing it to go through lower level body armor. There were several test conducted that prove this. *Silent compared to a firearm. I‘ve shot crossbows in relatively small enclosed spaces without hearing protection without any problems, a suppressed firearm would cause hearing damage under such conditions.

I spoke to a member of my archery club last week about this - he was an ex Australian commando (1CDO), and he said that they used crossbows quite heavily in training for teaching manual of arms (i assume he meant in the earlier phases of training). It certainly surprised me.

They're probably much better for guard duty since the lack of noise makes communication much much easier. Also they're 100% reliable once the string is pulled back so you don't have to worry about a dud round.

Informative love the humor

Belgian specials also receive training with the crossbow. It’s nice and quiet. Perfect for taking out sentries.

@hoilst265

7 күн бұрын

Do they steal teach them to do the Belgian Takedown - the most humiliating of all takedowns?

@jamesjanson6129

7 күн бұрын

Untill you hit said sentry someplace non-fatal and his yelling and screaming negates any silence benefits of an Xbow. That always tickled me in the movie The Wild Geese, Hardy Kruger's character used an Xbow with cyanide-tipped bolts and if I remember rightly a nite vision scope to drop the sentries in the army compound from what looks like a distance of 50 yards give or take. Later on in the movie Rodger Moore has a silenced pistol to take out sentries at the airport control tower. So why the Hell just not use even a silenced rifle like even a .22 with NV to do the initial sentry disposal that muck about an Xbow that back then in the 1960s/70 was a custom-made weapon in many cases that cost as much as a target rifle and was twice as finicky.

Crossbow bolts penetrate light body armor well. Also, a crossbow bolt is good at penetrating obstacles such as sandbags. It is also important to note that the arrow will most likely stop in the body rather than fly further. This helps avoid accidental hits. The arrow also has high stopping power.

Zero noise, no heat signature, retrievable "rounds". I don't think in a modern day firefight it would be useful in a direct conflict, but in a tactical situation, catching an enemy by surprise, I can see how it might be preferred over a pistol.

must admit there is still a good use for a crossbow in combat. using arrows in a secret close combat mission is going to be super stealthy. If they were able to get close without being spotted, no one would see or hear where theyære coming from.

@johnnyshanksalot8358

8 күн бұрын

As opposed to say a B&T SPR300? Why not slingshots at that point?

@canadiangemstones7636

8 күн бұрын

A silenced weapon is infinitely superior. There is NO good use for a crossbow in combat. Read some military history, see how often the word crossbow crops up.

@Jake-dh9qk

8 күн бұрын

@@johnnyshanksalot8358 The crossbow isn't meant to be the ONLY weapon of the squad, it's part of the squad's weapon system. There's a lot of versatility you can use with the crossbow

@johnnyshanksalot8358

7 күн бұрын

@@Jake-dh9qk Not when compared to modern tech, anything it can possibly do can be done far better by stuff from the last 100 years

China is getting their COD DLC in real life and militarily.

I am curious. What advantage does a crossbow have over a suitable (compressed and suppressed) air rifle, in terms of lack of heat and noise detection? It seems an air rifle would be in the best of both crossbow / firearm worlds.

Haven't gotten through all the comments, but haven't seen anyone mention yet, that sandbags are commonly used for cover and will stop all sorts of bullets, but crossbow bolts will pierce through.