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 know that learning to shoot a bow is no easy task so would that be the main reason muskets became so popular?
Yes, that’s exactly it. Teaching someone to use a musket is much easier.
A trained bowman could have been very effective in that time period, but there just weren’t any. The lack of body armor due to the effectiveness of guns means a bow could be quite effective, but due to the amount of time that passed between guns being invented and armor being phased out, the skilled bowmen who could be recruited for the war effort on either side would be few an far between
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