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The musket, always a muzzleloader, took minutes to reload; an archer could aim and fire up to a dozen arrows in a minute. Muskets required continual cleaning and repair; bows were quickly made and easily maintained.

Archers are pretty focused.

In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.

You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes.

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.

In high school for a couple years we did archery.