It' s not impossible to calculate but would be pretty difficult. If you treat it like a high school physics problem, where you neglect drag & air friction then it' s not so hard, but also not very realistic. Assuming you' re shooting on level ground, launching your arrow at a 45 degree angle, shooting around 250 fps, and there is no drag on the arrow, it would travel about 650 yards. (That' s also assuming I remeber my physics correctly & didn' t make any math errors.)
But this is far from realistic since there are many other factors to consider. We all know that the vanes or feathers on your arrow will create a lot of drag. But they' re designed to help steer the arrow to its target, not to help it fly further.
But to give you a more accurate answer; I was wondering the same thing myself a few months ago so I walked out back, let one fly at about a 30 degree angle, walked out to it and then ranged the distance back to the house. First let me say that I live on a sod farm that is very wide open & I can see for about a 1/2 mile to the trees in several directions so I knew for certain that no one was around to get hurt. So to answer your question, I was shooting a setup around 220 fps at the time & I measured a distance of about 290 yards.
There' s a stump in the middle of that field that ranges at about 300 yards from the back door & deer often cross the field right around there. My new setup is shooting a little faster now so maybe I should work on setting a 300 yard pin.[
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