Slingshot

A slingshot or catapult is a small hand-powered projectile weapon.

Slingshot was used for combat, shooting the fruits on high tree and hunting small animals.

Crossbow

A ranged weapon that uses a horizontal bow assembly mounted on a wooden main frame to fire short arrow projectiles.

During ancient warfare eras, crossbow was used for defensive and support role. Crossbow users can carry more arrows because those length are shorter than traditional arrows, but crossbow is slower to be reloaded because it string heavier than traditional bow, it need two hands to pull it string.

Modern Shooting

Shooting is modern combat skill and sport using handgun and rifle.

The first created firearm was the fire lance (Huo Qiang) developed in the 10th century, which evolved into the metal barreled hand cannon Heilongjiang by the 13th century Yuan dynasty.

Archery

Archery is the sport and combat skill of using a bow to shoot arrows to hit the target.

During ancient warfare eras, bow was used for offensive role. Bow was used to raid the enemy directly, because it string can be pulled only with one hand so the archer can shoot the arrows and reload it quickly.