Let's list all the reasons bows blow guns out of the water
>are silent
>are light
>are deadly accurate
>great range (up to 50 meters)
>arrows can be modified with poison, explosives, fire, gas....etc
>are easy to maintain, cheap to replace
The only downside is, to become a great archer requires tons of training, while guns are point and click
>penetrates up to three inches of steel
>an arrow tumbling in flight can slice a man clean in half
>minimal metal means you can conceal carry into airports just fine
>superiority
wrong
>while guns are point and click
also wrong
excellent thread, I guess all the people who started to switch to guns in the 14th century were retards. Thanks for showing me the light user
Out of the way
A real MAN'S weapon, coming through
>silent
>light
>deadly accurate
>great range (up to 50 meters)
>can sling literally anything round and small
>literally just a rope and a piece of cloth
t. Mad Jack Churchill
>(up to 50 meters)
There's no reason you can't put a tiny rocket engine inside an arrow.
And now that cameras are so small, why not an optical seeking system and thrust vectoring, too?
Then just replace the broadhead with a mickey mouse glove holding a cream pie for total battlefield dominance.
That no war club
Oh hey, I guess it is Yuro hours. Makes sense why these threads start springing up.
I bet those grapes sure are sour.
>are deadly accurate
and you will have to train with them since childhood to get there.
>are silent
I assure you that a bow is easily one of the loudest ways to kill someone, you can hear the screaming from ages away.
>are deadly accurate
>great range (up to 50 meters)
One can only hope that guns will one day be able to do this.
Humans were designed to throw. Choose the only paleo certified weapons: javelins and spears. I hear it's a great way to lose weight.
Christopher Lee would like a word with you.
>a cream pie for total battlefield dominance.
The ancient Greeks didn't share our paradigm for sexuality. For them there was no such thing as straight, gay or bisexual. To penetrate was purely masculine, and to receive purely feminine.
Except the Spartans who were gay pedos
Both Guns and Bows originate from China.
I know its bait but fuck it I'm talking it.
>are silent
Quieter sure.
>are light
Not compared to a cooperative system. And not with similar ammunition load outs.
>are deadly accurate
Less accurate than any modern off the shelf rifle.
>great range (up to 50 meters)
Your number is too low, but even with the correct numbers its far worse than even low powered rifles
>arrows can be modified with poison, explosives, fire, gas....etc
As can firearms. And better than bows.
>are easy to maintain
As are firearms, and bows won't survive conditions any reasonably kept firearm will
> cheap to replace
Not really in this day and age due to a economies of scale, but I'll give you this one if they had similar production
>to become a great archer requires tons of training, while guns are point and click
Guns are far easier but it still requires skill and training. But it is still far from the ONLY advantage.
Comparable* not cooperative
>great range (up to 50 meters)
Boy am I about to blow your fucking mind
i.e. 100% masculine.
But the Spartans didn't consider themselves really Greek as they were proud of being alien invaders so that doesn't really matter either way.
I see what you did there.
I-is that you?
>weapon doubles as a weapon
>arrows can be modified with poison, explosives, fire, gas....etc
>explosives, fire, gas
L M A O
Fire arrows werent a real thing and unless you are using modern military tech they wont be.
>nobody on Jow Forums is pointing at this retard and laughing
This is obviously just some euro poor or cucked state fag coping.
Things guns have that bows don't.
>capacity
>fire rate
>long range
>projectile speed
>penetration value
>concealibility
>will never be silent but can come close while still having superior range
>arrows can be modified with, explosives, fire, more armor piercing....etc
>silent
Never shot a bow in his life.jpg
>Fire arrows werent a real thing
ie "I get my opinions from youtube, please disregard everything I say"
>I'm gonna put cotton on the end of my arrow so i can dip it in oil and light it. Yeah it will destabilize my arrow and add unnecessary weight, decrease penetration, and there is a chance even it it doesn't blow out as soon as I let it fly and it still might not light anything on fire but its totally worth it my guy.
Give me one example where fire arrows were used in history.
Nigga 15 year old me lighting wasps nests on fire what do you mean?
>fire arrows are shit for combat
>lol I lit paper in fire with one once.
>Some mythbusters bullshit tried some supermarket version of it and couldn't get it to work therefore MYTH BUSTED!!
There are a bunch of historical references to the use of flaming arrows, particularly in naval warfare and against things like siege towers. People used all kinds of experimental pyrotechnics in the period between antiquity and modern firearms, The fact that it doesn't work when you do it in the dumbest fucking possible way doesn't really mean shit when we know Greek Fire was a real thing.
A bunch of dumb fucking movies go overboard with setting fire to every ordinary arrow for no reason. Sure. Don't confuse that with the utility of lobbing burning sticks at people with architectural technology based on thatch and portable pickets.
>a child home brewing Greek fire arrows efficiently doesn’t mean the greatest military forces the earth has ever seen could have used them to burn down villages
People are so silly, one of the most early forms of weapons still remains superior to this day, the spear.
>Even more silenter
>Can be thrown or used as melee weapon
>Less moving parts, more reliable
>If it breaks it's just a shorter spear
>The range is only limited by the strength of the wielder, a true chads weapon
>Can be made of anything, could even be a stick
Really, why did we ever need to go past this?
Fire arrows are a myth.
Bows also aren't that cheap.
>architectural technology based on thatch and portable pickets.
Don't forget that nearly all ancient waterproofing methods were highly flammable, There's zero reason to to use burning arrows under ordinary circumstances, but in an unexpected raid on a camp or village it's a super cool move.
Because they would penetrate the armor that was being worn at the time, which is no longer worn. An arrow can go through kevlar user.
In all seriousness, let's say you have a revolution in a cucked country like the UK. A mob of Englishmen with longbows would be a formidable force, as they always have been. Bows didn't just stop being deadly once the gun was invented. In fact I'd wager that the bow/arrow has killed more humans and animals than anything else in history. It's definitely not something to be glanced over because you favor the ease of use of a gun.
How cheap a bow is depends on how well made it is. A good one isn't going to be cheap or easy to make, but if you just want a stick with a string that can throw a stick a little ways then they're really easy.
>Implying it's legal to own string or wood in the UK
They won't go through a rifle plate you mong
>In fact I'd wager that the bow/arrow has killed more humans and animals than anything else in history.
are you actually retarded?
have you ever seen a world population curve?
several times more total people have existed since firearms conception.
They will go through soft armor, which is also what most people who wear armor use.
Obviously it's because bows aren't around as much so the population boomed.
That's why you aim for the head you dickhead
That's gay.
nobody said you need to use a broadhead as opposed to, say, a cute little shaped charge
2 in 1 weapon, what a great deal.
if it's a recurve it's actually a 3 in 1 since you can slip the string off and garrote a chap
4 in 1 if you learn a song to play on your 1-string harp
5 in 1 if you need to slice some cheese
>cucked country like the UK
Just about any weapon can be used to overthrow a government when the authorities are about as cucked as the general populace.
>are deadly accurate
bows are inaccurate as shit
Guess guns btfo, bows are the swiss knife of the projectile world.
no they aren't
>A mob of Englishmen with longbows would be a formidable force
>>minimal metal means you can conceal carry into airports just fine
ive read alot of dumb shit here, but that takes the cake
1) No they don't, every relatively modern military wears rifle plates and the that number dwarfs the rest of the armor-wearing population
2) When bows went out of fashion, civilians and deer weren't wearing armor either. It clearly pertains to military usage.
Shaped charges are proportional to their diameter, and don't scale down that far so your arrow will have less range than a supersoaker.
And if you have the facilities to mass produce shaped charges just build guns and you'll get a much lighter and more effective load out.
Compared to guns they are.
>Europoors trying to cope
Why isn't it how this works?
>Compared to guns they are.
If you know the spine of the arrow and have consistent technique, you can predict exactly where the arrow is going to be at any distance
I'm gonna make an educated guess here and say you don't know the first thing about shape charges, or explosives, at all.
tl;dr OP plays too many videogames and is probably noguns
Bahahaha no you really can't. Not unless your version of exact is "within several MOA"
in context of hollyjew and vidya bows are gay and supposed to be empowering for muh females and not icky guns.
>lara crofts patented weapon THE BOW
washed my hands of that series when it started. fucking sois.
That's not even bait, nice job user
Why the bow is becoming a female weapon in popular culture is beyond me.
To use a traditional bow with anywhere near the draw weight to be useful as a weapon requires significant upper body strength, something that women lack.