Shooting a HEAVY 160lbs medieval longbow against a HEAVY 860lbs medieval crossbow to look at the speed of shooting and the level of accuracy each of these classic weapons can achieve.

How many shots will the longbow get off against the crossbow?
Which is more accurate?

These trials are very set around a chat between Joe Gibbs, longbow archer and Tod from Tods Workshop, crossbow maker; where we range through training regimes, tactics, power, effectiveness, uses etc.......

Joe Gibbs was shooting a 160lbs Swiss mountain yew longbow, 80g approximate arrow weight
Tod was shooting a 860lbs windlass crossbow, 80g approximate bolt weight
Distance was 25m

You can see Joe shooting this bow against a period accurate breastplate using period arrows here    • ARROWS vs ARMOUR - Medieval Myth Busting  
Check out Joe in this film shooting 170lbs...   • Warbow, Joe Gibbs, English Warbow Soc...  
Joe's channel    / joe8gibbs  

If you would like to support my work on this channel you can always buy my fantastic reproduction medieval weaponry available here https://todcutler.com

For medieval crossbows from Tods Workshop, check out https://todsworkshop.com/collections/...

For Joe's bows check out   / hillbillybows  

Filmed and Edited by Mike Chernett