Matchlock guns were inferior in an accuracy rate and quick firing to archery, so that experts in shooting (a gunner) in the Sengoku period (the period of Warring States) invented Hojutsu, the art of shooting, in which accuracy and quick firing were highly valued.
砲術は、火縄銃が弓術と比較すれば命中率と速射が及ばない事に対し戦国時代(日本)の時点で射撃の名手(「砲術家」)が主に命中と速射に重点を置きあみだした射撃術である。