Sup bros I'm new to Jow Forums but not new to Jow Forums, and I was just wondering do you think crossbows/bows & arrows will be making a comeback soon? Here's why:
>Many cities now have triangulation which can track gunshots to within a few hundred meters. Bows & arrows are long-range weapons with no serial numbers that would not be traceable in this manner. >Guns can fire in a straight line but arrows can arc over a wall. When mass famine and disease sets in during the future dystopia, this will help to cut down the masses of starving infected individuals outside the city walls. >Bows and arrows are for Chads. Let's admit it, guns are such efficient killing devices that only a pussy would think he's manly by firing one. If you own a composite bow and know how to fire it effectively, your dick will never be dry.
Bows & Crossbow wont be making a comeback anytime soon until firearms are totally banned. even then they still have to compete with air rifles. I think a mag fed lever action compound crossbow would be a neat concept if someone was trying to fill in the role gap.
Logan Wright
>Bows & arrows are long-range weapons What? Maybe they were considered so three centuries ago, but they're mid-range. Most bow hunters don't shoot deer past thirty yards, especially in my area.
No, gangbangers aren't going to be using bows when guns are so easy to just get illegally.
When the decline of this country starts to really pick in a couple decades and the conflict inevitably begins, the sheer amount of existing guns and ammo will pretty much nullify the demand for bows.
People will make home-made rocket guns with arrowhead tips before they go back to bows.
Kayden Cruz
"Forsoothe, Jantarius, lay that nigga low with thy longbow"
Josiah Stewart
He would genuinely look cool if he wasn't a turboskele.
Hudson Jackson
No he wouldnt
Jace Davis
Guns require a complex and organized society to create. And you only get those societies with a state. Hence guns are a statist weapon.
A sustained resistance can only be achieved with homemade/community made bows and arrows.
If you're a pleb that points to vietnam or middle east, then you're ignoring those were state sponsored fighters. So unless you're expecting supply drops of guns, ammo, and repair kits, then you should start getting into bows and arrows.
Lucas Scott
After watching Naked and Afraid and seeing those retards take down bores and shit with a crap bow it makes me want to start getting into it.
I also horde the fuck out of ammo though so I can shoot .223 until I get killed in the apocalypse. Loot me if you kill me.
Charles Flores
>still refers to a bow as a "bow and arrow" Go to bed, Junior. Or just get off Jow Forums. Either-or.
Carson Evans
>Guns can fire in a straight line
uhhhh
Adam Wood
>Guns require a complex and organized society to create.
No, not really.
They only require some knowledge. which is already there.
Blake Jackson
He's talking about from scratch. A small group or even a single person can quite easily make a bow and arrows from scratch, in a way that you can't with guns and ammo.
Thomas Brown
I guarantee you that I have more ammo than most insurgents spent during their entire careers in Iraq/Afghanistan. If anything, access to chemicals for bomb making will be the limiting factor in an insurgency, but those are not difficult to find or make.
Julian Scott
I'd have a much easier time making guns and ammo than I would making bows and arrows.
If those arrows weren't mismatched it would actually look pretty sick
Isaac Gutierrez
Eh, I've made a pretty solid bow and arrows with a knife a string and wood gathered from a forest in half a day. Don't understand why it's not more common in survival shows.
I can make gunpowder with the raw materials but just finding good sources of those materials is pretty hit or miss, with the raw materials and some scrap piping I could make a boomstick in a few hours, but the limited quality of it and the risk of it exploding in my face makes homemade bows more useful in a pinch. Though, If I had time, machining, quality materials I could make a gun I'm proud of off the top of my head no problem
Tl;Dr Bows are more useful as resources dwindle, but with enough resources and time even homade guns will always be superior
Juan Moore
>knife a string and wood gathered from a forest in half a day Expedient, but not decent or solid. Green bows don't last long and can't put out a lot of power. Arrows are a whole other matter.
Evan Smith
That's why I grabbed 2 likely bows and put one to the side to season, then forgot about it and moved away....
