Bows 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

Bows 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.