@@HistoricalWeapons Traditional Asian crossbows are hard to come by on RU-vid.Most tend to focus on Chu Ko Nu or European crossbow. I'm keen on the idea that crossbow could be as primitive as bow and arrow, it's just we don't have the evidence of it.
Great Video! I just purchased one off Ebay for a surprisingly $85. Decent shape and it even had a trigger made out of bone. Obviously can't be shot due to age and minor cracks in the bow part, I did make a hemp bow string for it. I might do a video on it sometime down the road.
I thought as well that a big and strong trigger is needed to push 200 pounds out of a simple notch but I changed my mind after rubbing a bit of tallow-beeswax mix on the string. Now I don't consider a crossbow shootable until it's been lubricated.
My Father was in Vietnam during the war. He brought back a quiver of crossbows arrows. Had this still decades later. The crossbow had been stolen in shipping. He told me that you could buy these in Vietnam as souvenirs. And they had a cottage industrie makeing these to sell to the servicemen. Most were just something cheap barely working proper.
Pretty sure hmong people aren't montagnards.They usually reside in the central highlands and are descendants of chams. where as Hmong people are usually more northern.
The Montagnards refer to the ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands (Central Highlands) of Vietnam. They are ethnic groups that speak mainly southern island languages, before 1975 and after 1975 many forces there organized separatist armed groups. before the French discovered them, they didn't have a state of their own. Their crossbows are similar to the crossbows of the ethnic minorities in the mountainous north of Vietnam, the arrows are similar, but the arrows of ethnic minorities such as the Muong in the mountains of northern Vietnam can be impregnated with tree sap as poison. . In Vietnamese history, the crossbow appeared with the first legend of Au Lac state (the second of state of Viet ethnic people ni 218 BC ) country fighting against the Qin army from China, it was very useful for ambushes.
Weren't Montagnards on the Americans' side? The French used a 'divide and conquer ' strategy with ethnic groups in Indochina. They gave Montagnards and other ethnic minorities preferential treatment to get their support. The Vietnamese communists resented them for this and thus were enemies. The US offered training and advisement to the Montagnards and Hmong in their fight against communist Vietnam.
@@HistoricalWeapons I was moreso commenting on the passing mention of Americans facing this weapon in the hands of Montagnards. It's entirely possible that they encountered the weapon but unless I got my history wrong the Montagnards wouldn't be the ones using it. Anyway I enjoyed the video.
@@fire_lord862 same. there are millions of people who care about firearm history, sword history, but a very small group that care about crossbow history
