Thanks for the calm response Ron.
I am going to let this thread go ahead & fade away for now. You mentioned your wife was a teacher. So I took the time to look crossbow up on wikipedia.com. That is like an online encyclopedia my kids introduced me to. Here is what it had to say.
"A crossbow is a weapon consisting of a bow mounted on a stock that shoots projectiles, often called bolts. The medieval crossbow was called by many names, most of which derived from the word ballista, a siege engine resembling a crossbow in mechanism and appearance."
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