[Andy C. Nystrom]

Hey guys

I'm looking for info, pics, or video on the construction and function of Pull lever crossbows or push lever crossbows. My own efforts have met with little success.

[Geoffrey C.]

Hey,

Hope its not too little too late, but I just stumbled upon your post while looking for info on push-levers myself. A couple nice things I have found were that some people still make historical crossbows like...

http://replicacrossbowworld.com/english.html

While I didn't find anything direct about pull levers on their site I couldn't help but notice that their crossbows have the mounting lugs for "goats foot" pull levers. I bet if they don't make the goats foot themselves they would know where to find them. Here is another site selling a crossbow with a goats foot included

http://www.todsstuff.co.uk/crossbows/munition-crossbows.htm

Here is a website with a whole bunch of goats foot info

http://crossbows.republika.pl/goat.shtml

Hope this helps. Again, please don't be alarmed at getting a response long after your post, I just started looking this stuff up myself and figured you might still be interested. Also, I have yet to find anything good on pull lever types, if you have any info I'd appreciate it.

[Joel Minturn]

Are you looking for period crossbows like the Latchet bow? http://www.todsstuff.co.uk/crossbows/latchet-crossbows.htm an example from Tod's Stuff. Unfortunatly I haven't seen too much information about latchet crossbows.

For a more modern Example is there is the Twinbow.

Anouther place to for crossbow building information is the The Arbalist Guild http://thearbalistguild.forumotion.com/ I believe they have several threads with some information on latchet mechanisms and what not.