From a layman’s point-of-view it seems like the Bow & Arrow would be better for war since they, shoot much more efficiently, are cheaper to make and in even some cases significantly stronger.
I know that learning to shoot a bow is no easy task so would that be the main reason muskets became so popular?
In my simple man’s brain I’m wondering why you don’t see or hear anything about bows being used during something like the American Revolutionary war. Could it be that by then muskets had reached a certain level of design that made it more useful than a bow?
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I am going to use my go-to example from history whenever the topic of. “Bows vs muskets” comes up:
If bows were better weapons than muskets, Native Americans wouldn’t have tried to get their hands on *as many muskets as they could*, if the things they already knew how to make and use themselves were better.
Because Native Americans *loved them their muskets*. They loved flintlock muskets so much they *drove the firearms trade in North America*.
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