Archery seems more efficient than early guns why wasn’t archery used instead.

by Chariot-Requiem-

To me it seems that more arrows could be fired than bullets in a certain amount of time. Why did muskets replace bows and arrows. Were bullets just easier to carry than arrows. We’re they more damaging?

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This is a questions extensively covered by many, many answers on /r/AskHistorians. Here are a random selection that you might find enlightening:

  1. If early guns were so inaccurate and took so long to load, why did they so quickly replace crossbows, archers, and other earlier forms of projectile weaponry? by /u/Rittermeister

Why were primitive firearms used when bows and crossbows were better in every way? by /u/Valkine

  1. Bows Vs Arquebusiers/Crossbows

  2. and Bows in gunpowder era., both by /u/wotan_weevil