Rifle rounds go through soft body armour, too.
This calls for an experiment.
We will meet at a soon to be disclosed "battle ground" where I will find a Jewish archer and you with your rifle will battle to find out which is better.
I have to say I like my odds.
I think the fact that the world's military forces abandoned the use of all forms of bows a few hundred years ago. They determined that massed musket volleys were far more effective than massed arrow volleys, and you can use the musket as a spear (the most commonly used weapon in history, probably the weapon that has killed the most men in battle throughout history) by fixing bayonets.
Archer formations were very vulnerable to cavalry charges, so they needed to be protected by units of spearmen or pikemen. The musket plus bayonet removes this vulnerability, and makes cavalry charges exceptionally dangerous.
Of course, all that being said- bows are practically silent. Biggest issue with using something like a bow in today's context- let's say you manage to put an arrow into an officer's neck from your concealed position. Anyone who was looking in your general direction or at your target will see where the arrow came from, and thus the silence doesn't help very much.
Never thought I'd be discussing something like this, hahaha.
Arrows for hunting are effective.
I heard an old vet say that in Vietnam soldiers were being killed by arrows. He said the arrows were coated with something that didn't allow the body to clot the blood and dudes would bleed out. He said it happened a lot. Not sure in the truth of that, but that's what he was sayin.
Anyway... I think the federal reserve note has done more damage than any conventional weapons, but that is another story altogether.
Ok musket vs samurai, 1vs1.
Okay, how far apart are the musketeer and samurai, and does the musket have a bayonet?
Yes on the bayonet 100yards. Forest setting.
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