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I'm not sure this is true. Reloading muskets took a long time, no? You had to fumble with pouring the powder, tamping it, putting in the round, possibly also a
by elromulous 4y ago
I'm not sure this is true. Reloading muskets took a long time, no? You had to fumble with pouring the powder, tamping it, putting in the round, possibly also a sabot. "Reloading" a bow takes a second.
- oneoff786 4y agoBows could shoot faster and further but you would tire out. You also had to be a trained archer vs a random nobody with a gun. Becoming an archer was hard, and arrows were a lot more expensive. 1k longbowmen beat 1k musket bros, but that’s not the comparison that really mattered.