The Pull on some of the bows recovered from the Mary Rose was phenomenal mostly over 120lb and one approaching 200... I've done a bit of Archery and I wouldn't even be able to string them..
One of my hobbies is wargaming and handguns/ muskets took off at the end of the middle ages only because it took years to train an archer but only days to train a musketman... flintlocks made it a guard weapon, remember the three musketeers!!! but they rarely used them!!!
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