The musket actually had a greater range than the longbow if used in indirect fire Hardy and Strickland gloss over this point in Great Warbow and compare the direct fire range of the gun with the indirect range of the bow not like with like   Supplies of suitable bowstaves also began to dwindle making the longbow no longer a cheaply available weapon for the masses   It is also true that as armours improved and longbows had to have a greater drawweight to achieve penetration accuracy dropped off greatly  which is why the bows for target shooting that th century writers based their studies on  did not exceed  to  lbs draw or so   Lastly there would come a point where the drawweight needed to achieve penetration exceeded that which an archer could manage   Crossbows and muskets had no such problems though they did have others   All of these other factors are covered in Hardy and StricklandDecember