How Dare you talk about me that way! Anyway, bolts are shorter, thicker, and heavier. They are shorter to avoid unnecessary crossbow length and thus weight, the weight of the bolt is for extra penetrative power and because it doesn't need to be holdable and easy to knock the bow with.
How Dare you talk about me that way! Anyway, bolts are shorter, thicker, and heavier. They are shorter to avoid unnecessary crossbow length and thus weight, the weight of the bolt is for extra penetrative power and because it doesn't need to be holdable and easy to knock the bow with.
Also, they both originate from different words meaning arrow, they just grew to be distinguished after some language stuff.
I knew you'd have an answer for me