I made a really good crossbow by myself. It works pretty good, but the bolts I made spin (horizontally) really fast. I want to add fins to make them go straight, but I don't know how. They're made out of really good plastic . They are about 1 cm in diameter.
Q1)How do I add fins, and what should I use for them?How many? 3 or 4?
Q2)As for all crossbows, if the bolt has fins that are at equal distances (like a Y instead of a T), wouldn't that make the bolt pop out of the arrow path (slit where the bolt goes) a little bit? Is that OK if they do?
Q3)The arrow path on my homemade crossbow is 14" long ( with my resources in my home, thats as far as I could pull the string). The bolts I made now are 5 inches, and weigh about as much as 3 pencils.(I don't have a scale, so I just held a bolt in one hand and 3 pencils in the other and they seemed really close). Now, they go about 25-30 feet (again, that's just a guess). With all that info above, how long should the bolts be? Does the length of the bolts make a difference? If so, what difference does it make?(like, do longer ones go straighter or something?)
Thanks ahead of time!
P.S. I also put this question in the hunting category, because its both hunting and crafts, and I couldn't choose one.
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