Really odd conversion of an anti...

[Dionysusigma]

A while back, I posted a thread asking what the best course of action would be if one of your roomates was very much the anti. Well, I've got an update on the guy...

For the past few months, I've been working as a night janitor/ watchman/ stocker at a local tobacco store, and haven't really seen too much of my old friends. I recently got in touch with a couple of them, and the ex-anti's views seem to have changed on their own, though not as most of us on this forum would expect.

He's still rather bothered by guns on the whole, but he's all for self-defense and the protection of his life, liberty, and posessions. Now here's where the fun starts: One day, on a whim, he went to Wally World and ended up purchasing one of the best air pistols they have (something I did when I first got into guns). He's been having a blast with it, and his aim is improving steadily.

But here's the twist: Instead of having a shotgun, rifle, or pistol as his choice of home defense (heck, a .22 would be the next logical step, right?) he decided to get a crossbow. A really nice 175# crossbow, with the Terminator arrowheads and everything. Strangely, it seems to suit him well, as he is not exactly normal to begin with.

*sigh* It's not quite the expected flow of things, but I guess it's a start...

Now if I could just get him interested in .50BMG...

 

[Baba Louie]

Maybe he's adverse to loud noises?
Still and all, I'd hate to be the guy that breaks into his place and finds a bolt going through my chest.
Kinda hard to reload quickly tho.
Does he have a good spear or lance as backup?

 

[Dionysusigma]

His other roomate's room would make any Medieval armorer proud, what with the dozens of western and eastern bladed objects.

The other night, we were kicking around the idea that if someone broke into the apartment, we would take turns with our own preferred forms of weaponry. Guy #1 with his katanas and claymores, guy #2 with his crossbow and smaller (but still rather nasty large daggers), or me with my preference of... more modern means of protection.

 

[Harry Tuttle]

does he realize that crossbow kill by bleeding out the target?

not exactly a high rate of fire either

 

[MikeK]

One step in the right direction. Actually I've been thinking of getting one.

 

[Jim March]

You know why they call it a "crossbow"?

It's for when you're really "cross" with somebody .

 

[Skibane]

In all seriousness, has he given any thought to the legal ramifications? In the eyes of some jurors, shooting an intruder with a crossbow might be construed to be a little on the sadistic side.

Tell him that he needs to consider the big picture here: Surviving the home invasion is only half the battle – the other half revolves around surviving the investigation that inevitably comes afterwards.

 

[Lord Grey Boots]

Everyone knows what crossbow bolts do to modern body armour, right?

Punches right through as though its not there.....


There was a time that crossbows were banned, as the citizenry was using them to shoot the tax collectors.

 

[Parker Dean]

Everyone knows what crossbow bolts do to modern body armour, right?

Punches right through as though its not there.....

Cop-killer crossbow bolts?! There oughtta be a law...

 

[Travis McGee]

Sounds like he's still dealing with residual anti-firearms brainwashing.

He wants one, but just can't "pull the trigger" on buying an eeee-vil firearm.

 

[trooper]

In all seriousness, has he given any thought to the legal ramifications? In the eyes of some jurors, shooting an intruder with a crossbow might be construed to be a little on the sadistic side.

à think it might even be easier to defend a crossbow shooting as those things are 150% geared towards sports/hunting. I mean, who buys a crossbow for self-defense?

"Your honor, I don't own a gun or something, so I just grabbed the next improvised weapon available..."


Regards,

Trooper

 

[4v50 Gary]

Not hard to transition from an airgun to a 22 pistol. Just bring reactive targets to increase the fun (plastic bottles filled with colored liquid, clay pigeons, exploding targets, Birchwood Casey's Shoot N See, spinners, etc.).

 

[lee n. field]

It's a start, I guess. Now take him out to shoot the real thing.

Wally World's best air pistol is the $60 Gamo thing, right?