ORIGINAL: Matt / PA
As with a gun being fired sideways, The bullet drops way faster than in normal shooting.
WHAT!? LOL
A gun fired sideways will have the bullet "drop faster" because the sights are sighted in with the gunvertical but on an angled upward plane. In other words if you fire it sideways the actual trajectory of the bullet is being compensated sideways in the direction of the cant and not upward. In reality the bullet isn't dropping faster it's just not sighted in on that plane. The ballistics are the same. A bullet doesn't suddenly take a nosedive and lose power ebcause you turned the gun over.
With a crossbow it's simply how the weapon is sighted in and shot. There is no additional drop because it's fired with the limbs in a horizontal position.
The weapon is sighted in with the bolt being cast on an upward plane relative to the sights exactly the same way a vertical bow is. Limb orientation has nothing to do with it.
If a vertical bow shoots the same length and weight arrow set up with the same fletching and shot at the same speed as a crossbow they will have identical downrange trajectories and ballistics.
Good post, Matt. BTW, I think reading your sig. and avatat, thatI met you at a show a couple years ago. LOL Can't be many Bowtech Reps/ staffers living in Dover
! It was the old Heritage Days show sponsored by Keystone country store. What a great show, and sadly history.[
] Man,I miss that little show! Talk about gettingto rub shoulderswith some big time archers/ hunters. Ralph and Vicki Cianacarulo, Morret (of course), Drurys, Michael Waddell, all in one little tent event. Wonder why they dropped it? last one I know of was the one featuring the Josh Turner concert.