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How often do you think of a crossbow has recoil when fired?

🕑 Added 2025-01-25 17:24:06 +0000 UTC

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Sam Duffy

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John Bennett

With bows and crossbows what creates the recoil is the string traveling away from the shooter and coming to a sudden stop, creating "recoil" in the shooting direction (versus guns which push the shooter and the bullet away from each other, creating recoil in the reverse direction)

Stephen Lindholm

Wait, is recoil what you call it when you replace the string?

Just Jack

With all the mass of the bow limbs swinging forward, it probably all cancels out.

Lee Alverson

Not really recoil, but advance. That is the inertia of the bows and string coming forward.

Henry Walker

Depends on what you call "recoil". In the modern sense, no it doesn't push back against the shooter. However, there is a certain amount of movement once the string and limbs complete their travel.

Sororitas Cupid

I pulled up a recoil calculator and the stats for a medieval crossbow, and it's basically a negligible amount of recoil. Bolt mass is 1600 or so grains, velovity is 200 feet per second, mass of the crossbow is 7 lbs, and mass of the powder charge is 0. Sadly, it does have to be entered in imperial units rather than metric.

Torsten Stütz

Yes there is a propelant mass. The string and the crossbow arms

Sororitas Cupid

To add to this, there is no propelant mass. The propelant is often exiting faster than the bullet adding signicantly to the recoil. I assume the weapon is also heavier, whoch would dampen the effect as well.

Bill Burdett

Look up "Todd's workshop" on YouTube he has heaps of videos on crossbows and longbows, really good content for it.

FabulouslyTiti

No clue what the recoil is like, so I have nothing to add to that. I DID however learn just now what that metal bracket on front is used for! Never knew what it was for, but I do now. Thanks for showing me. :3

Michael Gruber

If anything, I would assume it kicked forward slightly since all of the tensions force is going towards the bolt, not backward like a gun.

Seabag

I think it'd be more of how violent the vibration is. There would be some kick sure, but the vibration on the hands would do more damage I think

Dale Thomas

Depends on the size of crossbow and the bolt used. Nowhere near a firearm but not insignificant either.

Torsten Stütz

Well there is a mass propelled forward, so expect an equal but opposite force as recoil. Its just that the bolt has more mass and less velocity than a bullet.

Joseph Callaway

The weapon would have recoil every time it is shot. Physics.

J.P. Tomcik

I imagine it's not recoil in the same sense as a gun. The force is all being applied forward instead of both forward and backward. So I imagine crossbows would likely kick forward (and due to human arm mechanics probably forward and down). I'm no expert though, so this is just my assumptions.