Dec. 13, 2019 - Bun hunt - page 12

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Jan

That's a very... questionable way to fire a crossbow, Silver :o

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Glenn Webster • 12/13/2019

I vote for fricassee!

Tir Amahn • 12/13/2019

How did she not shoot her toes?

Panther • 12/13/2019

Be freaked by a chicken ; it can be only with these two nuts ........... For the last panel , i bet Andrea got some advices from Wolf about it ^_^"

Adam • 12/13/2019

Does silver get creative when she is hungry for fried chicken? Me thinks she gets creative when hungry for fried chicken. XD

ndrvr • 12/13/2019

Good thing Tor refused to take the crossbow, with his bad luck (charm) he'd have blown the tree to bits ^^.

Next comic'll be all about "winner winner chicken dinner", right?

Random Guy • 12/14/2019

Treed by a chicken; there's a message here, folks!

Calbeck • 12/14/2019

They've invented the world's first pulse-jet chicken!

Spector • 12/14/2019

"What could possibly go wrong?..."

William • 12/14/2019

It took me a couple of times reading the strip till I noticed the crossbow launching and hitting the ground. LOL.

Shockwave07 • 12/15/2019

Instant dinner! Just add prey!

Tir Amahn • 12/15/2019

@William No, she coated the bolt's tip in alchemical explosives. She's still holding it in panel 5, she apparently dropped it between 5 and 6 when Tor leapt onto the branch and she picked up the bag and turned to talk to him.

soriac • 12/15/2019

I wonder if that's the secret mixture to make exploding sheep?

Llor Drei • 12/15/2019

This is similar to a device used in the TSR novels, The Cleric Quintet, where the cleric Cadderly invented a hand crossbow who's quarrel's had small vials of oil of impact under the tips, that would be crushed and explode on impact.

N7: • 12/15/2019

Those are pretty good arrows, to blast such a hole without getting destroyed themselves

Sammy • 12/16/2019

I wonder if Silver and Tor know that they are fox and tiger? You know, predators? As in they hunt chickens? Without a need for crossbows?

MoonEyes • 12/18/2019

Don't see anything questionable at all. Might be a bit iffy to COCK it, with the bolt on it like that. But I see nothing strange about firing it.

PBOF • 12/18/2019

Ummm, Jan, Tir, and William. The stirrup is for cocking the crossbow without ramming the crossbow butt into your gut, which gets real old after about a dozen times with anything above a fifty pound pull.

N7: • 12/20/2019

Reminds me of 'Quest for Fire' where they got tree'd by lions

Guesticus • 12/22/2019

PBOF:- just as long as she takes her foot out before shooting

PBOF • 12/24/2019

Yup. Purr-cisely.

Tir Amahn • 12/25/2019

But she didn't take her foot out before firing. Look closely at panel 5, she still in the same pose as panel 4, with her foot in it, and the bolt has most definitely been fired.

PBOF • 12/27/2019

Yeah, well ... there has to be a certain amount of tip rise over the bow (prod) so the down feather won't affect the aim of the bolt by hitting the bow during its travel down the stock (tiller) and her foot in the stirrup should be (and, yes, her foot shouldn't be in the sturrip during firing) low enough so it doesn't interfere with the feather and one of the fine points of a crossbow is that the bow string, when released by the trigger lock (nut) always has the same draw, thus increasing its accuracy over the standard bow and arrow which depends on the arm and back muscles of the archer ... and it is a cartoon strip, after all.
Hmmmm, which has me wondering, why do we ask for more accuracy out of humor than out of real life?

gkar • 12/29/2019

you realize the chicken thing is probably a zelda refrence

Silverwolf • 12/29/2019

So the "Wolf" in S&S is Silver?

N7: • 12/29/2019

@PBOF: A couple of observations.
With that pouch over the arrow head the arrow sits high on front of stock, raising the flight path.
Second; she released the string before it was cocked, she was still pushing down with her foot. That's why the crossbow fell.

PBOF • 12/31/2019

Tru Dat ....

Khenan • 01/06/2020

That is not how you crossbow

PBOF • 01/09/2020

Hmmmm.

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