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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5723370" data-attributes="member: 59506">You're comparing two different things here, though the missunderstanding is less with you than it is with the existence of inconsistent definitions. The 300 yards you quoted for an M-16 is more accurately the "maximum effective range on a point target".  A bullet fired from an M-16 still has the energy to kill well beyond 300 yards (lethal range), it just can't be accurately aimed at a target beyond that point (less than 50% chance to hit). The "maximum effective range on a point target" for a longbow would still be the same as for any bow and dependent on the skill of the archer...in the real world, most archers wouldn't attempt an aimed shot to kill of more than 40-50 yards, though a reeeeaaaallly good archer might be able to aim out to 60 or 70.  For medieval combat, I'd say that "aimed" shots would be maxed out at 100 yards.  Any shots beyond that range are area shots, not aimed at a specific target.  Longbows were only lethal at 250 yards as concentrated group fire, i.e. medieval artillery, not as aimed shots on a point target. One soldier with an M-16 and proper cover (fox hole or pit with plywood/pallet and sandbag cover), could eliminate an entire line of archers at 300 yards single handedly (as long as sufficient ammunition was available). Soldiers without cover would be in for a world of hurt.  A single soldier could probably get a few archers before being turned into a pin cushion.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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