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For the simple reason that a bow/arrow can be built from one source (one forest) and a firearm cannot be.
An archer can construct his bow, string, arrow, arrow head, and feathers for accuracy while in the woods.
A rifleman would have to contruct a barrel (the most difficult part to build); an action/ignition system; a stock to hold it all together with; then accumulate gunpowder (or make it). Last, but not least he'd have to make bullets. These materials would have to be collected from MANY different types of lands or places.
Consequently, while guns existed, there were times when men had to fall back upon the bow.
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