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ACWeapons wrote: Design wise. The person I made for this originally wanted a bow. But I could always redesign it as a compound bow. They look nicer anyways. I mean, there's a shit-ton of different shapes, each one with different effects on the bow's performance like drawing distance and energy released when firing the arrow.

Straight bows, Recurve bows, Reflex bows, Compound bows, Flatbows....and that's before including the actual weapons like Longbows and Shortbows.

Though Compound Bows's levering systems sound like they could help maintain effectiveness even with the gun-barrel extended and the magazine in place, since they are more energy-efficient than other bows thanks to said levering system and their limbs's rigidness, which also helps reduce the effects of changes in temperature and humidity.

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I was looking around Wikipedia about bows, to see if the presence of the extended gunbarrel and/or magazine by the bow's center would really matter. And the reality seems to be more complex.

Though overall, from what I gather, whether the gun barrel is extended or not makes no difference, since the weight is still present in pretty much the same area. Retracting it only makes the weight concentrate a bit more on the middle of the bow, but doesn't actually make it lighter, so the effect is the same.

The magazine would make more of a difference though, if it's loaded.