Quote Originally Posted by Incanur View Post
I guess I've heard it both ways. In wind tunnel tests published in Scientific American 252:1 (January 1985), the tested crossbow bolt experienced lower drag than the tested longbow arrow. If bolts really are less aerodynamic, I want to know, because that would make the crossbow Payne-Gallwey used to shoot a bolt approximately 450 yards even more powerful.
Are those with medieval / Early Modern type crossbow bolts or today's hunting type bolts (really arrows) because they are totally different.

Antique bolts, though they tended to be short and thick, also varied quite a bit in terms of how the fletchings were made and what kind of bolt head they had.

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