JakeStarkey
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No, the Ky long rifles weren't, maybe up to 220 yards. Single shot weapons against Native Americans only worked well from built up fortifications.Colonial riflemen were regularly picking off British officers from beyond 300 yards in the Revolutionary War. Nothing short of a cumbersome (taller than the archer), heavy-pull English longbow could hit at that distance...and even if it DID, the arrow most likely wouldn't cause more than a minor flesh wound.Wooden arrows had a higher rate of fire than single shot muskets and pistols up to the mid 1800s and those Amerindians were far more accurate with them up to about 200 yards.Again, white man use weapons that make wooden arrows useless. Silly white man?