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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8299650" data-attributes="member: 6788736">You're fixating on 'holes' and not on the damage to surrounding tissue.A musket bullet is hitting a person with 2,000 joules of energy (that the body absorbs decelerating the bullet). An arrow OTOH generates 75 joules of energy.The arrow will just punch a hole in you. When fired into ballistic jelly (or flesh), there is little cavitation caused by rapid expansion of tissue and then decompression in absorbing that energy.A bullet OTOH causes rapid expansion and then retraction of tissue as the tissue around the bullet absorbs the energy transfered by the bullet.This is called terminal ballistics. The energy transfer on target, and the damage this transfer of energy causes. Something you are completely ignoring (repeatedly).The other thing you're repeatedly ignoring is the ease of putting that 'hole' in a vital organ with a gun (point and shoot) as opposed to doing so with a longsword against anything other than an incapacitated target. It's much MUCH easier hitting and destroying a critical vital organ with a gun (center of seen mass, and then bang), than it is with a sword against a creature fighting back or otherwise defending themselves.</blockquote>