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IIrc, there's also a thing in some media where "only bad guys use guns." Like, it's not everywhere, but a lot of super hero comics had a "don't make guns cool to children" thing for awhile, so you had heroes using archery and throwing weapons vs. bad guys with tommy guns and stuff.

For sci-fi dystopian settings, you could see analogue weapons like bows and daggers as being preferable to something more traceable by an omniscient government.

no kidding i half expected you to pull out jonathan fergusson keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal armouries museum, wich houses a collection of firearms from all throughout history.

Someone mentioned home defense, and that brings up another great point: if someone takes your gun from you, they can easily just turn it around and shoot you with it. If someone takes your bow, they will probably just make a fool of themselves

A point in favor of a bow in a futuristic sci-fi setting: it's low tech enough that hackers cannot disable it from further use

Jack Churchill didn't think bows were useless in modern warfare. Hard to argue with a man that used to fight Nazis by playing Scotland the Brave on the bagpipes while firing a longbow and throwing grenades all at the same time.

There's a cool old videogame called Gun, where you play as a guy in the old west who had both guns and a bow, and let me tell you, you rarely have much use for the bow, but when you unlock dynamite arrows (Literally arrows with a stick of dynamite tied to them) that's the most fun weapon in the game.

Where the bow beats a gun is in the fact that you can always make more ammo. Guns without ammo are paperweights. Arrows can be made in the wild and bullets cant. Once you run out of ammo you have no weapon.

I know it's outside of the scope or purpose of this video, but I do think it's important to mention the existence of slings when you are talking about the history of bows/projectile weapons. Slings are probably at least as ancient as bows and used in military contexts throughout the entire period bows were, and have several advantages over bows, including performing better in adverse weather and a sling and bullets being much less bulky than a bow and arrows.

Hawkeye grew up in a circus. Trickshots became his main act and why he favors the bow. He was also trained in sword fighting in the circus as well.

"...bows identify your character not only as someone distinctive, but as someone with a hell of a lot of skill."

I think the main factor in sci-fi post apocalypse or similar setting is for sure ammunition. It's not easy to make ammunitions for guns from scratch. While making arrows is not rocket science. Sure, it won't be very good arrows. But you can still kill with it. And the risk to be hurt by a self made arrow is way lower than the risk of putting a self made bullet into your gun 😅.

Mourn with me friends! Once my dad went to visit his side of the family out of state and somehow my passing interest in archery came up. My grandpa, who I'd only met maybe 6 times and not in at least 8 years, said "she likes archery?" And stood up, went to his garage, and gave my dad a bow to bring home to me.

Something to touch on for trick shots is that bows and arrows reward the narrative/visual structure of anticipation and payoff. Whilst in sci-fi or fantasy there's no reason that you couldn't imagine that the technology or enchantment packed into an arrowhead couldn't also be shot out of a suitably sci-fi/fantasy firearm, you'll rarely see the special bullet specifically loaded into the gun, and once its loaded and ready to shoot to do its special thing it becomes hidden from the viewer.

There's also the point of magic when it comes to bows vs guns within fantasy: Enchantments.

There's an additional point I'd like to bring up about fantasy and sci-fi settings.

One of my favorite examples of bows vs guns in a fantasy setting actually came from a game I didn't play a whole lot (and has since been shut down) called Dragalia Lost. It was your standard fantasy thoroughfare with swords, bows, magic, and the like, but at some point weapons called 'manacasters' were added, which were basically various types of guns. The conflict comes from a character named Joe, who is your standard sharpshooter archer, but was eventually given a manacaster to try out. While he finds great success with it initially, he eventually claims that it's too easy and it's draining the sense of accomplishment out of battles. However, he's not worried about his own lack of thrills - he's worried about what'll happen when people who don't have the training and weapon discipline get their hands on that kind of easy power and start to underestimate the real dangers of combat. He plans on returning the weapon and going back to his bow, but after a duel with an opponent who was also armed with a manacaster, he decides that he could find his own reason for wanting to use one and improve with it. I thought it was an interesting story, and it works because in the context of the setting, guns are only starting to be introduced to the world. Were it an already established world where both bows and guns were in use, I think it'd be trickier to justify having a character with a concern like Joe's.

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I was waiting for him to mention that Katniss simply didn't have access to firearms in 12 but easy access to the bow her father made and he did not disappoint