Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25056223-20151221194038/@comment-25396609-20151227164431

They don't have even close to as much range or impact to a sniper rifle. A prpelry trained sniper will land the first shot every time at about 1500 meters, whereas a compound bow has an overall range of around 60 meters. Range is an important factor against something like grimm, not to mention bullets have a hell of a lot more force behind them, and even when you factor the velocity drop from a supressor you're still a full order of magnitude higher range than a bow and arrow.

Right now I'm guessing at sniper based on the difference between Ruby and Qrow's weapons, he uses a shotgun and presumably would have taught her his own style to same degree, and yet Ruby uses a weapon with the exact opposite functionality for range, and she must have decided sniper rifle for some reason.