Caete
Scientist Lady of Science
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Careful on crossbows, especially the older ones. Strings for older models (those with just the crossbar, no cams) can be very tough to locate. Unless you deeply trust your local archery shop to be competent to make one, best to shop around, online even. A local shop always did me good with all the bows I own. Never an issue with strings until they said they could make one for my old Powermaster crossbow (made in 1965 by Wham-O). Turns out they just took a bow string and wound the loops smaller so it'd not slip over the arm tips. HINT: that's not the way to do it. It put so much stress on the loops that on my first firing one loop broke and just missed removing my nose off my face.Oooo - a blow gun might be more up my alley - I don't like loud weapons. We're looking at crossbows, and we've swords, daggers including some that might as well be short swords, machetes....
Spend the money on a new model crossbow, you'll appreciate the ease of finding components.