>>64144676
If you did that it would be 6ft wide
>longbows perform so much better than crossbows
They don’t. You could make a crossbow that performs better than a longbow if you wanted, and you wouldn’t do it by slapping a longbow on the end of a stick. The longbow is not even a particularly good bow, it’s just relatively cheap and simple. Not that European crossbows were great either. For one reason or another, they suffered from poor efficiency and a very short draw length.

Anyways, people already made better crossbows, you can just buy them. Well, someone with money could.