Lets say anIn my world I have a genius inventor like Davanci hadDaVinci and my inventor has been asked to create a hand-held semi-automated thing that has to be held with one hand for a king. Could he do it with the technology back then? Any method possible.
Basically, it has to work like the one in the video link here. Except when you pull the trigger once, it fires a bolt, and to fire another bolt, you just have to pull the triggerautomatic crossbow. The crossbow reloads and cocks itself without human input. The only input you need to give is pulling the trigger, like a tap motion to make it fire bolts.
Is it possible, or notWhat is a believable design for the re-arming mechanism for such a crossbow?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAuxTXByc_o This is the mechanism that re-pulls the bowstring back into firing position.