"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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| A real crossbow bolt would be a much more
| effective projectile (accuracy, range, lethality, reliability)
|
| as a weapon of war, the biggest crossbows ever had a range of about 30
feet, as
| compared to about 100 years for long bows. the crossbow, however, could
| penetrate a knight's armor. crossbows were outlawed for war (except
against
| the infidels) by some pope.

Gee, my Anglo background, I must have never been born, assuming of course,
the dubious pope was ignored by those most witting.