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?
This is a questions extensively covered by many, many answers on /r/AskHistorians. Here are a random selection that you might find enlightening:
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
and Bows in gunpowder era., both by /u/wotan_weevil