Yes. More fun than being shot at anyway. How many quivers you got ?
One if you want to know, thats what you could bring with longbow+mace. But the price was/is also a factor, especially when wearing armor, which was yet another reason not to be a melee oriented archer I suppose.
And in case you dont know, ranged themselfs are more likely to get shot than inf. As far as the fun factor goes, archers where usually at the bottom then, and its even worse now.