Reddit reviews Stryker Strykezone 380 Crossbow Package

The physics on walker skull integrity have been pretty varied this season. But I would put more money on a penetrating weapon (crossbow bolt) than a blunt force weapon (slingshot). I've seen slingshot mentioned before and I think people are severely underestimating the amount of draw strength on Daryl's crossbow.

http://www.amazon.com/Stryker-Strykezone-380-Crossbow-Package/dp/B0052B3OSW

It has a 160 lb draw and that's LOW for a crossbow. Maybe at very close range you could make a slingshot work but there's no way you can get deadly effectiveness at the ranges the crossbow can. There's two factors at play.

The physics simply don't work for the kinetic energy, because you'd need a slingshot which you either a) can get a large draw on or b) need dense ammo like lead balls which negates the argument of using anything for ammo. Simply put, you're not going to pick up a rock and use a slingshot to explode a walker skull. It won't work.

The other factor against you is how pressure works. It's force divided by the area you apply it to. The reason why needles, bolts, arrows all penetrate the skin are because their tips have a very tiny cross sectional area so all the force is concentrated there. Bullets can afford to have relatively rounded fronts at certain calibers because of the sheer speed behind them. And his crossbow is good for 380 feet-per-second, the length of a football field.

A slingshot ball or rock would be good to cause a lot of pain to another human being or perhaps knock them out. However, if it kills by brain injury it would be because of a contusion and not the traumatic brain destruction required to stop a walker. We've seen very few blunt force deaths on walkers and those have all completely crushed the skull. The idea of using a slingshot is pretty unrealistic.

TL;DR- Slingshots are silly. The short range required for a blunt force attack to work means you'd be better off just using a blunt force weapon like a baseball bat.

Agreed. Not into the double barred front. Why? I have no idea, but Amazon reviews agree with us: http://www.amazon.com/Stryker-Strykezone-380-Crossbow-Package/product-reviews/B0052B3OSW

Not for a decent one


This is the crossbow Daryl now uses.


He did use this onoe before