User blog comment:WarrenWitch/Yang nails it, Pyrrha gets her man, Weiss chooses the lesser of two evils...and Ruby hits a crow/@comment-13616152-20130816052735/@comment-10390252-20130816090609

Look at the screencaps. Mid-way between rifle and spear, the weapon looked a lot like a bow. It might just be an optical illusion but it certainly looked that way.