200lbs Assassin’s Crossbow - LET’S TEST IT!

This film is about these tiny but powerful all steel crossbows - 200lbs/90kg draw weight, but fits in your hand. Properly known as a Balestrino, but more commonly known as ’Assassins crossbows“; but the big question is were they really for this? Let’s test it! My crossbows are available here If you would like to help support the channel please visit my sites ​ for excellent budget historical weapons ​ for custom historical work and for T shirts and merch please visit My Armoury thread is here To drop MyArmoury a tip for viewing the thread above (and would be great if you could), send a Dollar/Pound/Euro etc to nathan@ My reproduction was loosely based on the xi 286 in the Royal Armouries, Leeds. The information card of their bow reads....... “The rarest form of crossbow - only about